Word: combat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public pronouncement about his new budget until after he presents it to the newly convened Congress. Last week Dwight Eisenhower deliberately breached the custom by announcing that the budget for fiscal 1960 (beginning next July 1) "will be a balanced budget." Convinced that he is duty bound to combat both price inflation and governmental bloat, the President decided to risk the course urged by Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson: take a stand on fiscal responsibility, and let the political chips fall where they will...
...Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under the North Pole, made huge psychological warfare headlines, opened up a new strategic frontier...
...Faubus thought Johnson's remarks were aimed at him, he took the fact blandly; indeed, before he left he observed that Lyndon would make a fine President. He was also unruffled when a telephoned bomb threat set cops to swarming around the auditorium: "I was 300 days in combat with the infantry, so I'm not easily disturbed by such things...
...foot high Thor was fired by the same type of crew that would launch it in the field under combat conditions...
Bedouins that he hoped "the laggards still concerned with civil war may finally realize that the page of combat has been turned. Now it is the page of progress, civilization and the brotherhood of man." At week's end Premier de Gaulle flew back to France, where his election as President of the Fifth Republic on Dec. 21 became only a formality when his respected friend, 76-year-old President Rene Coty, announced that he would...