Word: auditions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion that the missile gap had disappeared. The newspaper stories, said Salinger, were "absolutely wrong." At his own press conference next day, John Kennedy at first seemed to deny that there had been any McNamara meeting with the press ("if such a meeting took place"), stated that until his audit of U.S. defense forces was complete, he could make no comment on the missile...
...Friday morning the students will audit classes, and in the afternoon they will tour M.I.T. and meet with admissions men there. In another meeting Friday night, College officials interested in talent-hunting operations will question the children to determine their reactions to the visit and their thoughts about the college...
Surrounded by his vast company of experts and workers, and by Brothers Bobby and Ted, Jack Kennedy was ready to pluck the fruit of seeds he had nourished so well over the months. In his pocket, secured, checked and double-checked like an audit of the U.S. Treasury, was his packet of certain votes so persistently gathered around the nation. And yet, with all the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedys were allowing for mischance, miscalculation-the sudden outbreak of an emotional riot, perhaps, that might start delegates stampeding in the wrong direction...
...long-overdue rethinking of U.S. defense policies. For one thing, the Administration finally made up its mind to concentrate on an array of offensive missiles and bombers, and to chuck expensive defensive systems (TIME, April 18). And last week the prestigious House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, in a thoughtful audit, generally endorsed the Administration's "mixed-force concept" of missiles and bombers (and put to rest concern about a missile gap). Then it raised a question far more fundamental to U.S. defense than hardware: Must the U.S. always plan to take the first blow in future wars...
...Eaton-but he was not thinking of "hordes of inspectors." Nor was the West unwilling to split up its package if agreement was possible on the most urgent problem, that of weapons in space. Eaton proposed an immediate agreement to declare outer space off limits for nuclear weapons, to "audit" all missile flights on an international basis, and to stop production of fissionable materials for military purposes. Stolidly, the Russians replied that disarmament is one single problem. "It should not be sliced...