Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developing adequate civil-defense precautions. Last week Pollster George Gallup found out why. He asked a cross section of adults whether they really believed the Russians can atom-bomb the U.S.. learned that only 17% think they can, while a sanguine 72% still figure it can't happen here...
Line Blocked. Said the President: "The last great population remaining in Asia that has not become dominated by the Kremlin, of course, is the subcontinent of India [and] Pakistan . . . Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
...Fight That Didn't Happen. Loudly touted in the press last winter was a forthcoming death struggle between Eisenhower and the conservative wing of his party in Congress. To those who believed this prophecy, the big news of the session was that it failed to happen. An anti-Eisenhower Republican faction never raised its head. This was partly due to Taft's skill and loyalty, partly to Eisenhower's enormous prestige, and partly to the fragmented character of Congress...
What Next? At dawn on the third day, G.I.s donned their "flak jackets" and helmets again, moved down the scarred slopes from dozens of famous hills where U.N. soldiers had died: Heartbreak Ridge, Whitehorse Mountain, Christmas Hill, The Hook, Little Gibraltar. Somber and unsmiling, the men wondered what would happen to them next...
...episodes, wrote Hartnett, had prompted him to ask the press two questions. First, "Is a newspaper justified . . . in reporting only . . . the remarks of a speaker which happen to coincide with its own editorial positions? In other words, is it reporting what speakers say or only the reflections of its own views ... in what speakers say? Secondly, has not a newspaper some obligation (to the speaker himself) to give a fairly balanced account . . .?" Hartnett was considering a drastic remedy: "I for one am strongly tempted to omit public criticism of Mr. McCarthy in the future, because I do not want...