Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basis of Flexibility. Because the Russians see how they might fight a big war, it does not follow that a big war is what they want. There are other kinds of wars in which they might gain, with less risk to Soviet survival. They have not allowed nuclear weapons to overshadow conventional arms, and have thus retained their enormous superiority to fight non-nuclear wars, big or little. They say publicly that limited nuclear wars are impossible, but Garthoff believes they have, in theory and in practice, the capability of fighting these...
Indiana University's slight, white-haired Kenneth Powers Williams, 70, who began teaching mathematics at Indiana in 1909, since 1944 has found a second field of excellence-writing Civil War history. That year he decided to follow an old interest, write a short book on the war's last year. Commencing work at 6 a.m., teaching classes in an authoritative, no-nonsense fashion in the afternoon and writing more history at night, Mathematician-Historian Williams began to produce something far different-an orderly, exhaustive study of Northern command: Lincoln Finds a General. With two volumes out, the work...
...addition, the government should begin an extensive program of construction of fallout shelters. Further, technicians sent by the United States to foreign countries should not live lavishly, but follow Soviet technicians' example of living at a standard equal with that of most native residents...
...usual, the army did not follow up its advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
...project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple voyaged through the new lake, planting a trail of red and black buoys to mark the way for 80 ships waiting to follow-and for the thousands to come after the deep seaway's opening next April...