Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly a year had passed since NATO's members agreed "in principle" to the stationing of intermediate range U.S. missiles in Europe, but not a single missile base has been established anywhere on the Continent. NATO's minimum military ambition-a 30-division shield force in Western Europe-remains unachieved. West Germany, which promised to contribute twelve combat-ready divisions by the end of 1959, has only seven in being, will probably take four years to assemble the rest...
...possibility is that Dr. Evans was overconservative back in 1941 when he set the safe "maximum permissible body burden" of radium at one ten-millionth of a gram. If so, some of the alarm about recent fallout may be allayed, because the 1941 radium standard was the base on which all other permissible body burdens have been computed. But if Dr. Evans was overconservative then, it was a good fault: after the haphazard misuse of radium only a decade earlier, a strong corrective was needed...
...Record. The son of a sometime professional fighter. Jimmy attended Manhasset High School on Long Island, averaged 14.9 yards a try as a senior halfback, 38 points a game for the basketball team, set a school high-jump record (6 ft. 3 in.), pitched and played first base for the baseball team. After sifting 45 scholarship offers, he chose Syracuse, majored in sociology, put on a spectacular one-man show in the 1957 Cotton Bowl by scoring three touchdowns, booting three conversions against Texas Christian in a 28-27 losing cause...
...morning last week Deems ended the struggle by calling Mayes into his office and firing him. His successor: able Wade H. Nichols, 43, editor of McCall's Redbook, who will move to Good Housekeeping at $65,000 base pay plus bonuses. A man who delegates responsibility, Nichols earned a solid reputation by converting themeless Redbook into a magazine that aims at young adults, raising circulation from 1,915,905 when he took over in 1949 to 2,591,676 this year...
This casting procedure is an effort "to broaden the base" of Eliot House dramatics and train actors for the group's regular productions according to Hancock. The readings, to be held in the Junior Common Room, are the main feature of a three-part program of activities outlined this week by the recently reorganized Drama Group...