Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy acceptance of Alanbrooke's diaries as the handbook of Allied strategy. Bryant's pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians...
...prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal...
Atom-Test Suspension. The U.S. view: either disarmament or test suspension, actually parts of the whole, must be accompanied by foolproof inspection controls. The Macmillan view: much the same in principle-but the British are willing to take greater risks in deciding what constitutes foolproof controls. Says a British spokesman: "The Russians don't like foreigners swarming around their country. We don't think they should be allowed to have a veto over inspection, but we think some arrangement can be made so there is no swarming in of foreigners." Even in its unilateral decision to halt atom...
...Features Syndicate -which sell puzzle contests to newspapers. In New York. Andre F. L'Eveque, who runs Superior Features, announced that he had found and plugged a leak and had given full details to the FBI. The other syndicates insisted that the precautions they take against leaks are foolproof. But what happened in Portland presented undeniable evidence that more than a leak at Superior was involved, since another syndicate's puzzle was fixed...
...evidence was nonetheless piling up that U.S. policymakers, along with the AEC, were beginning to pause for second sober thought. Most members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy have turned against the idea of stopping all nuclear tests until foolproof inspection can be guaranteed. The likelihood increased that the Senate would probably refuse to ratify a nuclear treaty without such safeguards. Thus at week's end the McCone plan of agreeing to stop the atmosphere tests only -while continuing to seek methods of detecting underground tests -seemed to make good sense. If the Russians were sincere...