Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus the U.S.. armed with the local atomic capability of the Sixth Fleet and the worldwide thermonuclear capability of Strategic Air Command, and assured by week's end that a missile speedup was inevitable (see below), moved to meet Khrushchev's crude power play with a readiness to use power, if necessary. How to preserve that power and that diplomatic capability five to ten years hence, in the face of Sputnik's warning, was the heart of the sober second thought in Washington last week...
...German Expressionists, notably Beckmann, command far greater attention here than has been shown them in such collections in the past. Only the arrangement of a large German exhibition in New York prohibited the further expansion of this group...
...past few months. Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that a reconnaissance wing would be deactivated in early November. Item: Secretary Wilson ordered severe cutbacks in Air Force payments to major contractors-meaning that the contractors will probably have to slow down delivery schedules. Item: the Defense Department directed "an immediate, continuing and sharp curtailment" in defense-contract...
...landing strip, only seconds after take-off lost one engine and stuttered with its other. No. 13 on the plane's passenger manifest: well-Oriented Author James A. (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener, immersed in some island-hopping research for a book on the Strategic Air Command. Unable to regain the strip, the pilot chose to go by the book, ditched the aircraft and immersed Michener in Michener's favorite ocean. Rescued after 90 minutes on a life raft, uninjured Passenger Michener mourned the loss of 1½ year's worth of notes and manuscripts. Half...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Observatory, speculated that the satellite may be conserving its battery strength by transmitting scientific data back to Russia only on command. A coded radio signal from a station in Russia may activate a sending device within the satellite which would report on scientific measurements once...