Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...period the 95 men in the Skate were as completely divorced from the earth's atmosphere as though they had been in outer space. This was made possible by a battery of atmosphere purifying and recycling equipment that has been developed for use in nuclear submarines. At the end of 31 days, we were breathing the same air we started with more than a month before...
...shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME'S cover was far from unreserved praise, "I only got the airline-hostess model." King Hussein of Jordan once took Mecklin flying in his plane, with an unexpected thrill at the end when the young King was barely able to get a stuck nosewheel down...
...Washington, President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, visiting British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred on the rocket-rattling letter. At conference's end, word leaked out that they had turned thumbs down on any immediate Geneva summit meeting but might be willing to talk summit again after the close of the U.N. debate...
...week's end Ike broadcast one more message, this time to the U.S. forces staked down at Lebanon...
...rose through the global ranks to the Policy-Planning Staff as specialist on Southeast Asia. Assigned by President Eisenhower last year to crowded, humid Beirut, spruce and able Ambassador McClintock ran a polished show, still found time to keep trim with push-ups and strolls at the far end of his black poodle's leash. As Lebanon drifted toward civil war, he was credited with recommending the U.S. policy of keeping President Camille Chamoun at polite arm's length until Chamoun put his own political house in order. Iraq changed all that...