Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fact, more than any other, pointed up the need for a change in the Administration's position. Dwight Eisenhower, honorably intending to stay above the battle and base his case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in fighting segregation. Without it, Southern moderates had no place to go. Without it, some of the most patient, effective integration programs were weakened as Southern die-hards mobilized their own legal resources to fight the battle for segregation in the name of states' rights...
Installed in Britain last week: the first of 60 Thor 1,500-mile missiles that the U.S. last February promised its important island ally. Battened placidly in the belly of a Douglas 0-133 transport, the ballistic bird was flown secretly to the U.S. Air Force base at Lakenheath, England, was greeted unenthusiastically by the British press-mirroring an anti-missile feeling among both Labor and Conservative leaders, who fear an all-out commitment to missile defense. Fitted out with a thermonuclear warhead (which stays in U.S. hands), Thor can blast from British soil 15 minutes after the first alert...
...Dulles stooped under the spinning rotor blades of the Marine helicopter that set him down on tiny Coaster's Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay one morning last week. Rested from a recent vacation week, he made his way up the lawn into the headquarters building of Newport Naval Base and into President Eisenhower's vacation office. The Secretary of State drew a chair up to the left of the President's desk, reported that he had finished drafting the statement that they had been planning by phone for three days. "Let's have a look...
...northern waters by weeks -or months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could do so much for the north...
...comprised the newest of the academy's four classes, set up three years ago in temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. They were a strange sight to be parading a courtyard befitting a grand motel. Incongruous was the battle dress, designed for fighting men, worn by youngsters to whom the annealing process of military life was still incomplete-and incongruous, too, were the orders shouted by cadet officers, straight and cold as steel girders: "All men quartered in Area D, be sure to keep your shades pulled when changing clothes! There are secretaries across...