Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support...
...veto power over the makeup and movements of inspection teams on Russian territory, thus rendering inspection worthless; 2) U.S. scientists discovered that they had seriously overestimated the ability of inspectors to detect underground explosions. Alarmed by the miscalculation, the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission and some members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy urgently asked President Eisenhower to modify the U.S. offer lest the U.S. get tied to a crippling agreement that an enemy could violate without detection...
...modified plan was largely the brainchild of AEC Chairman John McCone, who outlined his proposals last January (TIME, Feb. 2), and got support from the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. Young (34) Idaho Democrat Frank Church accepted them enthusiastically in a Senate speech last month. Tennessee's Albert Gore, in a well-publicized White House visit, urged the U.S. to confine the ban to atmospheric tests, urged that the U.S. offer to suspend them unilaterally...
...Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla., on Grand Bahama Island. A $12 million joint venture of top U.S. Shipowner Daniel K. Ludwig, Promoter Wallace Groves and British Millionaire Charles Hayward, Freeport boasts a harbor dredged 30 ft. deep and capable of handling 400-ft. ships, and offshore refueling lines that can deliver 7,500 gallons an hour...
...plasma thermocouple differs little in principle from the well-known bimetallic thermocouple that has been in use for a century to measure temperatures. In a bimetallic thermocouple, two pieces of unlike metals are joined. When the joint is heated, a feeble electric current is generated, flows through a wire connecting the cold ends. Chief obstacle to commercial use is the difficulty in finding metals that can operate efficiently at the high temperature required for large-scale power production (TIME, April...