Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the headlines the U.S., far from being outraged, was making an effort unthinkable in the days of the old French Fourth Republic to support De Gaulle's drive to restore French influence. At the discussion level in high Administration circles were proposals...
Critical Fortnight. The New York task force, made up of nine high state officials under the chairmanship of Manhattan Lawyer Oscar M. Ruebhausen, based its recommendations on two fundamental facts: 1) in a nuclear attack upon U.S. cities, fallout radiation, the "silent killer," could cause three or four times as many deaths as the blast and heat from exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective...
...quiet blue haze of North Carolina's high Pisgah National Forest, Ranger Ted Seely, 51, brier pipe in mouth, tramped through tree-darkened groves where waterfalls trickled down slopes and an occasional deer or groundhog darted into a clearing. His top worry of the day was checking the waters of the Pigeon, Hominy, Davidson and other rivers to be sure that they were flowing silt-free; miles below three North Carolina communities and some of the state's biggest paper, cellophane, rayon and nylon plants were depending on a steady 100 million gallons daily...
...monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...
...talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...