Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detect approaching enemy bombers, the U.S. has spread a web of radar stations along its coastlines and across the wastes of northern Canada and Alaska. Except for Navy picket ships and patrolling "Pregnant Geese" (radar-laden Lockheed Super Constellations), the protective net stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...
...Diem could not gain his time easily. "Monsieur l'Ambassadeur," he told U.S. Ambassador Donald Heath, "our problems are immeasurable. We must consolidate our administration; we must detect Communist spies left behind by the Viet Minh. We have maybe one million people to evacuate from the North, 50,000 from Central Viet Nam, and 40,000 loyal tribesmen from the frontiers. We have to find all these people land, medical care, food, work and a place to live. We need help...
...longtime hero Joe McCarthy had begun to "irritate" too many people. Even the paper's front-page cartoons, which often showed a runty, Ike-faced figure, idly playing golf while bigger tasks went undone in the background, have been replaced by nonpolitical cartoons. More and more readers detect a hint of reasonableness in Trib editorials for some of the opinions of the other side. Apart from politics, the colonel has ordered dry-runs on a gossip column for the Trib, although in the past he has scorned such things as the work of "keyhole peepers...
...government created special courts and special prosecutors in the showcase Manchurian industrial centers of Shenyang (Mukden) and Anshan, and along the country's principal railways, to detect and punish "counterrevolutionary sabotage," espionage and willful inefficiency (Peking People's Daily, March...
...chapters and two affiliates, the American Trudeau Society (for physicians) and the National Conference of Tuberculosis Workers. Supported by sales of Christmas seals ($23 million worth last year), they have spread the gospel that TB is, in the main, a preventable disease, that no effort should be spared to detect it early, and that treatment must be prompt. But last week's conferees were in no mood to write off the job as done...