Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thin. The swiftest and most profitable shift from planes to missiles was made by the Martin Co., simply because it had no choice. It was either that or go broke. When George Bunker, a corporate rescue expert, took over as boss in 1952, the company was deep in the hole (1951 loss: $22 million.). Bunker easily saw that Martin had no future in planemaking. He shifted into missiles and electronics, busily worked to get dozens of Government contracts that looked none too inviting to other companies, because the profit was less than on commercial business. Now Martin has contracts...
...steadfast summer viewers willing to suffer reruns, Nightmare at Ground Zero will make harrowing fare for a hot evening. Scientists at a 1954 A-bomb test are trapped by their own talents when the weather changes and an unexpected wind rains radioactive dust on their bunker...
Nevertheless, demons and his men push forward. Several hours later they swarm, exhausted but triumphant, into a bunker just below a fortified crest on Pork Chop Hill. A few seconds later, the U.N. barrage blasts the bunker to rubble. Morale collapses. Lieut, demons tonguelashes his men into the firing line, counts what is left of them (35 men), calls up his small reserve, charges the top of the hill and takes...
Finally, in an attempt at direct action, Veritas collected the 200 signatures necessary to nominate one of its supporters by petition as a candidate for the Board of Overseers. Though the name of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 a former aide of Gen. MacArthur) did appear on the official ballot, and though half-page ads supporting him were inserted in Cleveland and Philadelphia newspapers, the Veritas candidate failed to gain election. In consequence, the group was reduced to its alumni mailings and sporadic contact with Harvard officials...
...Bunker further pointed out that Bunche had, according to a Senate probe, "repeatedly pressured persons in charge of UN employment to hire a notorious Communist agent." Another member of the Veritas Committee, Kenneth D. Robertson '29, said there is "no question" that the loyalty board which cleared Bunche of subversive charges was "the object of intense Communist pressure...