Word: gaither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save many millions of lives and perhaps make the difference between defeat...
Another important injury, right fullback Pete Bower's broken leg, opens a serious hole in the Princeton defense. Tom Urbanick, one of the Ivy's best fullbacks, will start on the left, while Jim Gaither will open in the nets...
...yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...Bank. Gaither, who helped give the foundation its present shape and direction, announced last May that he would return to his San Francisco law practice. Still in office as the foundation's guiding force and chief executive: able President Henry Heald...
...briefcase full of notes but no solution. A technical specialist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Robert E. Zider, went to Seaford with a dowsing rod and a theory that water beneath the Herrmanns' house was unsettling things with a freak magnetic field. From Duke University came Dr. J. Gaither Pratt, psychologist and expert on extrasensory perception...