Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson clanged swords with the Administration on a perilous issue: the U.S. "should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb . . . As a layman I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible." Equally drastic was his proposal that the U.S. put greater reliance on the United Nations as the agency for passing out its economic aid, thereby removing "economic development from the arena of the cold...
Afterwards, sightseeing around London in a four-car cavalcade escorted by 21 motorcycle cops, Nikita Khrushchev recovered his old form. When the dean of war-damaged St. Paul's Cathedral pointed to the place "where Hitler dropped his bomb," Khrushchev cracked: "Looking ahead, Dean, you won't need a repair job if an H-bomb falls." At the Tower of London, told that Tower ravens are protected because of the legend that if they disappear the British Empire will perish, Khrushchev observed mischievously: "I don't see any ravens...
Most of the men invited worked on the atomic bomb during the war, and it is believed that during their two-week stay in Russia they will tour Soviet nuclear installations. Weisskopf worked on the "Manhattan Project" under J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 for several years...
...wrote: "[He] so impressed me with his alertness, grasp of problems, and personality that I never thereafter lost sight of him." In 1944 he became Arnold's chief of staff in the Twentieth Air Force, helped direct the unprecedented, long range B-29 raids, including the first A-bomb drops on Japan...
Student Counsel. In Pasadena, City College Freshman Edward Mulrooney was arrested after he tossed a bomb at his psychology teacher's house, damaged the front porch, left a note: "If you don't want your home bombed or your windows shot out, then grade fairly and put your assignments on the board-or is this asking too much...