Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy will continue to abide by Dwight Eisenhower's decision in October 1958 to suspend U.S. nuclear tests. But strong pressure in favor of more tests will come from some of Kennedy's nuclear and military advisers, who are eager to try out the so-called "neutron bomb" (TIME, Nov. 14)-a new breed of hydrogen weapon that is triggered by conventional explosives rather than nuclear fission. The ultimate in "clean" bombs (there is virtually no fallout), the neutron bomb is almost certainly under development by Russian scientists, and the U.S. cannot afford to linger much longer...
Rigid & Regular. When their six-jet modified bomber lifted clear of the airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland...
...meetings in San Francisco, head of the Marshall Plan mission to Britain in 1948-49, and Secretary of the Air Force under Harry Truman (1950-53); at the time of the big uproar over whether or not the U.S. ought to go on with the development of the H-bomb, Finletter was in the front rank of the go-aheaders. More recently, Stevensonite Finletter joined liberal Democrats in New York City in a still-broiling fight against Tammany Hall...
...studio was stripped to the brick walls. After sipping from a coffee cup ("a new coffee: Chock-Full-o'-Booze"), Gleason squarely faced the camera and continued: "We have a creed tonight, and the creed is honesty . . . Last week we did a show that laid the biggest bomb-it would make the H-bomb look like a two-inch salute...
...rest of his 30 minutes, Gleason held an inspiring post-mortem on the bomb, a dreary affair in which guest panelists had peered through cutouts in prearranged backdrops (among them: John Smith saving Pocahontas, four playing cards, high school hurdlers in a track meet), tried to guess the picture they were in. Discussing the vagaries of show business, Gleason asked rhetorically how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop. "If this happened in a hospital . . . " He might also have asked how it was possible for one of TV's funniest...