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Word: commands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What about the statement of General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, that SAC is ready to put out brush-fire wars with nuclear weapons? Replied the President: SAC can be used wherever the Defense Department sends it. But "when you get a picture of the great Strategic Air Command charging all over the world for little police troubles, of course, that would be entirely wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Atomics to Billboards | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...unique organism, the Southern European Task Force-SETAF-whose job it is to support NATO's ground armies in that area. A tightly packed, well-trained band of about 6,000 men, SETAF comprises the U.S. Army's only operative atomic Missile Command in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Fair Verona: 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...after Confederation in 1867, and the Liberals, who have ruled the country since 1935. With a general election set for June 10. the two major parties now face a bumptious challenge from Western Canada. From their stronghold in Alberta and British Columbia, the Social Credit Party's high command swept into Toronto last week for a national convention launching their first serious bid for national influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Challenge from the West | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Istiqlal, smuggling leaders into the palace, sometimes in trucks delivering groceries. In the classic divide-and-conquer style. Juin assiduously cultivated the antagonism of the mountain Berbers for the urban Arabs. He made a special ally of rich old El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, who claimed to command some 300,000 fighting Berbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Man of Balances | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Died. Dorothy Sebastian, 50, oldtime (1925-32) cinemactress (Sackcloth and Scarlet, Our Dancing Daughters) and onetime (1930-36) wife of William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, with whom she appeared in His First Command, The Big Gamble; of cancer; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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