Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours that President Eisenhower lay unconscious during and after his operation for ileitis in June 1956, the Pentagon was seriously concerned about who could give the order to retaliate in the event of an enemy attack. The President's staff patched up a workable but probably extralegal procedure-Cabinet members stood by their telephones; air strike forces put on special alerts-and it was agreed that if the enemy did attack, the retaliation order would be given by a presidential standin, presumably Vice President Richard Nixon...
When President Eisenhower got well, he grew increasingly concerned about the missile-age command paralysis that might come to the nation in the event of presidential disability. When he flew across the Atlantic after his stroke last year to attend the NATO heads-of-government conference, he even pondered who could legally take command of the country if his plane had to ditch in midocean, with nobody to say whether the President of the U.S. was alive or dead...
Musical Chairs? Last week the President published the terms of a precedent-making answer to the 170-year-old problem of presidential disability that he has worked out with Vice President Nixon. The gist: in the event of disability, 1) the President would, if he were able, call in the Vice President to take over as Acting President, to perform all presidential acts and fulfill all presidential duties; 2) the Vice President would, if the President were not able, and "after such consultation as seems to him appropriate," decide whether to declare the President unable and take over as Acting...
...place its missiles in position, it will seek great open areas, e.g., the Southwestern U.S., will rent missile sites from farmers and ranchers. In peacetime, the missile sites will stand unmanned, surrounded by electric fences, and patrolled from the air and on the ground. But in the event of war, nothing more than the press of a thumb on a Minuteman red switch would be needed to flip back the steel caps, fire the missiles in their tubes and shoot them out on 800-to 1,000-mile-high trajectories to preplanned targets. Still another new Minuteman paper asset...
...spite of such fiascos, stubborn Walter Ulbricht seems determined not to change his ways. Last week the Trade Union Federation, obediently toeing the Ulbricht line, announced a frenetic campaign to spur worker production and "to call to account trade union and economic functionaries in the event of nonfulfillment of obligations...