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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says the report: "Foreseeable new offensive weapons such as ICBMs-sudden in action, massively destructive, difficult to destroy either before launching or in flight-will greatly aggravate the problems of strategic defense and enormously increase its costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE USSR's CHALLENGE: Rockefeller Report Calls for Better Military Setup, Sustained Will | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...difficult to tell from the Tufts game whether or not goalie Tab Cleary has made a marked improvement, for of his fourteen saves, the vast majority were routine. In its crease, Princeton has alternated Sid Guberman and Bo Torrey, both of whom are of the journeyman variety...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Hockey Team to Face Princeton In Away Ivy Opener Tomorrow | 1/10/1958 | See Source »

...summit, it would represent the best antidote to the present tension. Although AEC Chairman Strauss has kept up a constant campaign in favor of the tests, his stand can be overruled and he may well be out of a job in June. It will be a more difficult job to unfreeze John Foster Dulles, but even he cannot sit tight forever in a world that is constantly moving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stassen's Last Stand | 1/8/1958 | See Source »

With a lead of 13 points and only three minutes to go, Coach Bruce Munro re-inserted his first team for a ball-control drill, obviously geared for the more difficult games to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '61 Defeats Brown In Fifth Win, 71-60; Bowditch Scores 27 | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

...thus must keep the independent producers healthy. But Canadians sensibly pointed out that their oil is shipped in pipelines and would not be cut off. Warned former Canadian External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson: "Any further restrictions on Canadian imports into the U.S. would make further defense cooperation more difficult." The Canadian press seconded him. The conservative Toronto Telegram's Washington Correspondent James M. Minifie snapped: "Are safety-pin assembly lines closing down? Jack up the protection. Who cares about friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Quota for the West | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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