Word: hydrogenic
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...flood control. Because he seems to have no aim except to avoid--to avoid socialism, to avoid war, to avoid trouble with the team--he has lacked push. Crucial aid to schools fell through largely because the President trusted his team and did not drive it. The testing of hydrogen bombs has continued because Eisenhower has been stopped by the untenable technical point of inspection. In Suez, the President was content merely to prove America's good intentions; if he and Dulles had any settlement which would satisfy the British and French and retain a respect for Egypt's rights...
...campaign Stevenson has given notice of his ability to provide this leadership. Through his New America reports--on education, health, the aged, natural resources, and economy--he has revealed that he has the information, and specific plans based on information. Stevenson has carefully worked out his proposals on the hydrogen bomb, so that the end of the test explosions need not mean the end of defense development...
Down to the Line. Candidate Stevenson had firmly grasped an issue that seemed to be pulling him backward. The issue: national defense, with special reference to ending hydrogen bomb tests (see below) and the military draft. In no state did TIME correspondents last week find Stevenson gaining because of his national defense proposals. In several, the correspondents found that Adlai had been hurt, because former Stevensonites seemed more willing to trust the nation's defense to Dwight Eisenhower...
...tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...
...Francisco he poured on the sarcasm ("You've got to respect [Eisenhower's] clear and forthright opposition to inflation, deflation, fission, fusion and confusion, doubt, doom and gloom, fog and smog"). And once again he asked: "Are we seriously asked to trust . . . the decision over the hydrogen bomb to ... Nixon?" And once more, the crowd roared: "No!" In Los Angeles that night, 25,000 aggressive, confident Democrats caught the new spirit as Adlai carried on at Gilmore Field. They roared when he accused Ike of golfing, shooting quail or otherwise being out of touch during foreign and domestic...