Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ATOM The Oppenheimer Case Swirling last week amid the currents of opinion stirred up by Russia's Sputniks was a demand for a re-examination of the decade's most sensational security-risk case: the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 decision revoking the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Los Alamos A-bomb laboratory and later chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee. A three-man special board headed by the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray (now Defense Mobilization Director) concluded in 1954 that Oppenheimer...
...NATO allies before taking any major decisions. Their notion is to restrain such unhappy ventures as France and Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country deems vital to its own interests. The French are also deeply suspicious of the talk of interdependence and "efficient" division of atomic-weapon production; they see a threat of British-U.S. "nuclear dictatorship...
Chief reasons for the slowdown are a surplus of oil and light demand. The trouble started during the Suez crisis, when oilmen expanded to meet a big demand that did not come; it was made worse by the failure of the U.S. to increase oil use at a normal 6%-a-year pace. In October, demand, ran only seven-tenths of 11% ahead of October 1956. In this softening market, the oil-rich states are holding down the amount of allowable production to hold up the price, and offshore oil has been cut by the general slash. The State...
...part. Then Actor Sidney (Edge of the City) Poitier quit his co-starring role as Porgy, declared that the show was a "classic," but "as a creative artist, I just do not have enough interest in the piece." Goldwyn's version of the incident: Poitier quit after his demand to approve the script had been refused. Said Goldwyn: "If Poitier had seen a script and the way we are treating Porgy and Bess, he would be excited to do it." Goldwyn would name no names of other entertainers who had turned down roles, but called the boycott "an underground...
Instead, the solution lay in making "some tough choices" in nonessential, nonmilitary federal programs. "Now, by whatever amount savings fail to equal the additional costs of security, our total expenditures will go up. Our people will rightly demand it. They will not sacrifice security to worship a balanced budget. . . Some savings may still be squeezed out through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face...