Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report Alaska's "stir and throb that reaches far beyond the cities, into the tundra, across the forbidding mountains and glaciers into the valleys" (TIME, June 9), Bill Smith. 28, a spring-legged, outdoor-loving correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau, moved up to Anchorage. From his base in Alaska's busiest city (pop. 35,000), Bachelor Smith will roam the new state, reporting Alaska's passage into the Union and the forward march on the newest U.S. frontier. After two days in Anchorage last week, Reporter Smith flew on to Juneau, looked forward...
Minuses & the Plus. At 9:30 a.m. the Joint Chiefs met for the day's first joint session. Each officer was aware, out of years of military, diplomatic and economic study and experience, of the minuses of U.S. involvement in the oil-rich but base-poor volatile Middle East. The Air Force had run staff studies on locating strategic and tactical air bases in the Middle East, had come away convinced that the Middle East was so vulnerable to Russia's near-at-hand Ilyushin light bombers and tactical missiles that the U.S.A.F.'s strategic bombers ought...
...Dismissing Naguib as not revolutionary enough, Nasser became Premier himself. He negotiated British withdrawal from their Suez base, attended the Bandung Conference, and then, after rejecting a limited U.S. offer, ordered arms from the Soviet bloc...
Gold stocks, which have shown recent strength on news that the government proposes to increase subsidies to high-cost producers by 25%, were left behind in the speculative rush, closed the week off slightly; Western oils and base metals shared the same fate. But industrials continued a slow climb on good business news from Canadian industry, rose 1½ points for the week...
...submerged in a dishpan or washed in an automatic dishwasher was introduced at the National Housewares Show at Atlantic City this week. Manufactured by National Presto Industries (pressure cookers) of Eau Claire, Wis., the stainless steel pot has both heating element and thermostat enclosed in a waterproof plastic base, is the first submersible coffeemaker to win Underwriters Laboratories approval. Price: about...