Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point out that BMEWS is not specifically designed to lock into the Army's developing Nike Zeus system, in which antimissiles will be fired automatically at incoming missiles, once detected. But in BMEWS, in the general sense, the U.S. will get a welcome new weapon for the missile gap until more advanced systems of early-warning-and-missile defense become available. Among the wild-blue-yonder possibilities: 1) observation of the Communist land mass from space satellites in the 1960s (see SCIENCE); 2) creation of anti-missile radiation belts-"death rays"-that might make sectors of sky impassable...
...Courage to Be. The only way man can cope with his existential anxiety is by having the "courage to be," which Tillich defines as self-affirmation in spite of the threatened possibility of nonbeing. This courage to be is like a spark across the gap between existential and essential, philosophy and theology, man and God. For this human, self-affirming courage-unlike Nietzsche's Will to Power-has its source and power in "the divine self-affirmation...
...Some time this month the President plans to make a speech defending his defense budget and answering Democratic charges that his program will lead to a dangerous missile gap in the 19603. At the President's order, the Pentagon has worked up more statistics and memoranda on U.S. v. Soviet firepower. Ike reads the reports and roughs out his counterattack in the evenings; by day, Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos and other White House aides work his notes into speech form...
...Celtics rallied from a 14-point deficit in the first half to narrow the gap to 59-58 at the intermission...
...Negroes in an undignified light. He talks in analytically flavored prose about "Negro situations" and says: "In 1944, with three other Negro sailors and our dates, I was refused a table at the Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question docs not matter: "I don't want to be anybody's brother-in-law. I just want to be his brother...