Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise announcement last week the Soviets again thrust Berlin into the forefront of the news. Urging that four-power occupation rule over the city of nearly four millions be ended, the Russians announced that they were turning control in their sector over to the East German government. Immediately, the West tensed and affirmed their determination to abide by the present occupation rule, which was provided for in the Potsdam agreement...
...profound change occurred in the post-Sputnik era, said Davis. "Dr. Killian and his group of scientific advisers managed to defeat the Strauss-Teller position within the Administration, and this led to the present arms control conferences...
...other lines is the vanishing U.S. airspace. A jet moving at an average of ten miles a minute will require an air cocoon of 6,000 square miles 2,000 ft. deep for safety. Jets will reach heights formerly monopolized by military planes, will need precise traffic controls to keep them on their separate ways. Last summer Congress belatedly created a new jet-age federal agency, the Federal Aviation Agency, which will supplant the old Civil Aeronautics Administration on Jan. 1, take over safety-regulations functions from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Headed by Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, retired Air Force lieutenant...
...shoplifter of ideas and religious systems, Huxley wants mankind to find the ideas and beliefs most useful for a good and happy life, but forgets that men do not necessarily believe what is useful. Huxley's plan, apart from his perfect pill, seems to involve cooperative communities, birth control and freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will continue to listen to Singing Theologicals...
...negotiations on nuclear test suspension clearly became a possibility yesterday in view of rejection by each side of proposals put forward by the other. The United States rejected a Soviet plan on the ground the Russians sought to extract a promise to end tests without giving guarantees on a control system...