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...perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug in a substitute and ship the original back to the plant. And then some day U.S. industry will achieve its ultimate goal: the humming electronic gadgets in every U.S. household will be virtually foolproof. By the time the machine finally wears out, the U.S. homeowner will have got his money's worth, and be ready to buy a new one. The perfect, unbreakable machine is many long years away. But in that dazzling, much-to-be-desired future, no one will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Out of Order | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...arms. Under such a disarmament system, said Dulles, "bad faith would be so vulnerable to detection that it would not become a profitable tactic even for those so inclined." But the Russians had rejected these proposals, reiterating only that the West ought to stop nuclear tests without waiting for foolproof controls. Asked Dulles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Hard Line (Contd.) | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Eisenhower proposed that the U.S. and its allies extend their offer to suspend nuclear tests for ten months to a period of one year, renewable to two years, if the Russians would agree with the West to 1) quit making atomic weapons and 2) cooperate in setting up a foolproof worldwide system of inspection. "I sincerely hope," said the President, sounding what might well be the U.S.'s last word, "that the Soviet Union will now join us in agreeing." Preliminary Russian reaction: "Nyet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Offer & Response | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...pages of testimony: "The Government has failed to prove conspiracy, monopolization, a restraint of trade, or any reasonable probability of a restraint." Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court,* but with scant hope of winning a reversal: LaBuy's decision seemed foolproof and final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Du Pont Case | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Peaceful Warhead. A cheap, shortrange, foolproof rocket was developed a few years ago for one of the armed services. The program was washed out before the production stage, but last week the Grand Central Rocket Co. of Mentone, Calif, came up with a new use for its rocket: fighting forest fires instead of human enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Gadgets, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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