Word: globalitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls the Astron, at super-secret Livermore Laboratory in the green hills southeast of Berkeley. His idea of trapping electrons in the earth's magnetic field grew out of Astron, which is designed to trap ionized particles in a magnetic field in a laboratory rather than on a global scale. Nick's paper proposing Project Argus, written in late 1957, was not published except in classified form, and not all scientists agree that it was the first such proposal. Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland is said to have written an earlier paper but kept...
...fight, if necessary, to defend the Western position in Berlin. He called in congressional leaders of both parties to muster a show of national unity. He tried to restrain U.S. allies from sliding off on tangents, kept up a stern front as Communism's Khrushchev changed pace from "global holocaust" threats to such seeming concessions as an indefinite extension of the May 27 deadline for Berlin settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). All week, Dwight Eisenhower was the man in command of the Berlin situation, to the point of acting as his own Secretary of State...
...Cold War. Underlying the U.S.'s firmness was a conviction that, however tough he might talk, whatever steeliness he might display in brinkmanship, Nikita Khrushchev would not, at the showdown, risk global war. A war was on, but it was the old war of nerves...
...Service Medal. With this parting gift, Ed Rawlings officially concluded 30 years of extraordinary service to the Air Force, went on his way at a youthful 54 to a civilian job as director and financial vice president of General Mills. Left behind: a Rawlings-rejuvenated Air Materiel Command, the global, 200,000-man complex charged with buying, storing, supplying and maintaining all equipment used by the Air Force...
...Member of a chemical family called benzomorphans, it is entirely synthetic. If it proves as valuable a morphine substitute as Secretary Flemming hopes, it will free the U.S. of dependence on imported opium, which is becoming harder to get in world markets and might be cut off entirely in global...