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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear age as the best deterrent to aggression and the best assurance of final victory over any enemies who might attack...
...same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really out of it once they leave." Best way to avoid string-pulling temptation, Radford suggested, is to require a standard two-year cooling-off period for retired officers before they engage in direct selling to the Pentagon...
...closest advisers, he prefers university-trained economists rather than the men who have risen from factory and mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's glamor, but he has earned solid respect. He has kept his party fully behind NATO and, though infatuated with the notion of disengagement, has also kept his party behind the allied position in Berlin...
Sukarno, perhaps the best phrasemaker in Southeast Asia, dubbed his Cabinet the "Cabinet Kerdja-the Cabinet of Work." Its program, he added, is "a very simple one: to provide food and clothing for the people in the shortest possible time, to establish security, and to continue the struggle against economic and political imperialism." This last item was a flag-waving attempt to reawaken the nationalistic fervor of 1945 by intimating that an attempt would be made to wrest West Irian (Western New Guinea) away from the Dutch. If words alone could save the staggering nation of Indonesia, Sukarno would...
...everybody. Fumed a Santiago businessman: "The people here who were Fidel's best friends are working against him now, just like they worked against Batista. A man slaves like a dog to build up a piece of land, and now they take it and give it to somebody else. And if you talk too much, they'll knock your...