Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 20 months ago, a sleek new Comet jet-powered transport plane, the pride of the British Overseas Airways, took off from London Airport to inaugurate a new era of travel in which men could hurry about their business on the globe's shrinking surface at speeds close to eight miles a minute. One day last week, the same plane took off from Rome on the last leg of the now routine jet flight from Singapore to London. Aboard were 35 passengers and crewmen, including Australia's able historian of World War II, Chester Wilmot (The Struggle...
...fire without victory quieted Korea, but it was still the quiet of the dormant volcano. Mankind's greatest tyrant died; his death touched off a lupine scuffle for succession in the Kremlin and opened a new and unpredictable era for the tyranny Joseph Stalin fixed on half the globe. Radioactive dust particles borne east in a cloud from Siberia told the outside world that Russia, too, had plumbed the secret of the thermonuclear bomb and could now visit instantaneous death on the obscurest cranny of civilization. Yet somehow, in the year in which he learned that a mere handful...
...Constellation, helicopter, limousine. jeep, tractor, oxcart and imperial coach, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon circled the globe. In ten speech-filled weeks he traveled 45,539 miles, visiting 19 Pacific and Asian lands, shaking thousands of hands. Last week Dick Nixon and his wife Pat returned to Washington...
SHAPE'S strategic thinking, close to unanimous at the top, accepts the fact that the allies' defense problem is global, while NATO is commissioned to deal with only one sector of the globe. It recognizes that victory in case of Communist attack would come not by holding on to any given piece of real estate, but by striking at the enemy's centers of strength. "You won't win the war by the defense of Western Europe," says Monty...
Dinceon, columnist of the Boston Globe, will be the intermediary. He has written. The Purple Shamrock, a biography of Curley's career, and Ward Eight, a novel about a ward boss who is defeated by a reform group. Rappaport, founder of the New Boston Committee, will discuss the reform movement as related to the political machine. The Forum's moderator will be Professor W. Covington Hardee of the Law School...