Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave of laughter swept over the sweltering press conference, and the President himself had to control a grin before answering; coming from Constant Critic McClendon, a staunch friend of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, the question was akin to awarding Ike the ears and tail of a brave but lifeless bull...
...Seek amendment in Congress of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act to permit British and French control of small tactical nuclear weapons, including missile warheads; the project will be brought up before President Eisenhower and the National Security Council shortly...
...week informed the NATO Council in Paris that it intended to move 225 F-100 fighter-bombers from France to Britain and West Germany. Reason: the French government would not let the U.S. ship the fighter-bombers' nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put under French control. A few days later, the F-100s began roaring off their bases at Toul, Etain and Chaumont, landed in new quarters at British and German alternate bases hard by the nuclear weapons, a combination that made NATO strength for the Berlin crisis that much solider...
...British and Soviet test-ban negotiators had led people in the U.S. and around the world to suppose that a lot of progress had been made. In fact, there had been no meaningful progress and no real Soviet concessions on the tough issues: the nature, methods and control of an inspection system. Meanwhile, argued Gore, the Soviet Union had made propaganda profits out of the conference by advertising the mere preliminaries of a test-ban agreement as substantial Soviet concessions. The U.S., said Gore, should 1) adopt firm, realistic goals for the test-ban conference, 2) set a timetable...
...wide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 Ibs.) fuel load and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, waiting for foaming operations to be completed. The emergency vehicles on the field could hear the calm spurts of dialogue between Pilot Sommers and the control tower...