Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential assistant for atoms-for-peace. Replied Dwight Eisenhower in a letter of rare warmth accepting Strauss's resignation: "Thanks in large measure to your early awareness of the broadest military implications of nuclear science, the U.S. and other free nations are more secure against the threat of attack...
...made plenty. He got inured, more or less, to gibes from public-power Democrats and from the pundits and scientists who resented his part in recommending the cancellation of the security clearance of Physicist Oppenheimer (TIME, April 19, 1954). But in recent months Strauss had come under attack of a sharp and intensely personal sort from New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, ranking Senate Democrat on the powerful and once circumspect Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
Anderson's broadside, promptly reported around the world, was an attack on the integrity of the U.S. of a sort unequaled in the Western countries since a few French and British polemicists joined the Communists in their charge of germ warfare in Korea. But Strauss kept his reply in low key. Its net (in which the Pentagon joined): Not true. Pouted Anderson from his privileged sanctuary on the Senate floor: "He in effect four times calls me a liar...
...flight deck), opposition was strong in Congress against the Navy's overall carrier doctrine. Part of the opposition comes from supporters of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, who believe that supercarriers put the Navy into the Air Force's business of strategic nuclear attack. But the most effective fight is coming from Navy types who contend that too much money is going into carriers that are vulnerable to both missiles and submarines, too little into the U.S. Navy's own Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarine program. Last week the House of Representatives weighed next...
...involved process which a Harvard student goes through only with his honors thesis. Unfortunately complication and not critical analysis of a subject is stressed, but the practise does provide a valuable preview of research methods. With his source theme behind him, the Scarsdale student is better able to attack the usual college paper than is the high-school graduate who has never written more than a 500-word essay...