Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 25, of Lincoln, Neb., shot down while on an armed reconnaissance flight over North Korea, and Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., Captain Harold E. Fischer. 29, of Swea City, Iowa, and Lieut. Roland W. Parks, 25, of Omaha, all downed while on combat missions over North Korea. The General Assembly resolution last week called for action on all 15 uniformed men (but it did not cover two U.S. civilians also captured by the Chinese and sentenced on spying charges...
...piled up vast all-round experience. He has been a pursuit pilot, a flight instructor, one of the early 6-17 pilots who worked out U.S. long-range bombing techniques. A top technician, he helped to develop retractable landing gear, variable pitch propellers, and a long line of U.S. combat planes. In World War II he led fighter forces in Italy, ended up commanding the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Forces, flew 19 combat missions himself...
...begins at the Pinetree radar line, straddling the U.S.-Canadian border. Begun in 1950, it is now in operation. Cost: some $250 million (paid one-third by Canada, two-thirds by the U.S.). Pinetree is magnificently planned to track incoming raiders and guide U.S. interceptors in air combat. But radar's 200-mile range provides very short notice of attack. The Air Defense Command will not now guarantee any warning time...
They also knew that if they could grow the polio virus in sufficient quantities, it could be neutralized with formaldehyde, and used to produced antibodies--which would combat any polio germs in an inoculated person...
...administration first based its counter stand on the claim that present facilities in the Houses are adequate for late studying. The Council committee showed that although more chairs have been put in House libraries to combat the rising demand for space, this addition did not necessarily increase study capacity. Just as a man in lab requires space in which to work without being disturbed by his neighbor, so a man studying in a library needs enough isolation so that he is not continually distracted...