Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HEMISPHERE). The President's first move was to order Dulles to find out from the Venezuelan embassy if its government was able to protect the Nixons. He added: "We had better find out what we have militarily in the area." The President called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining. Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had, through aides, been in touch with the Nixon party in Venezuela, called McElroy, reported the situation as "nip and tuck...
When Herter's report came, McElroy was in conference with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...
...spite of our serious doubts," wrote Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to President Eisenhower last week, Russia is "prepared to try out" the Eisenhower proposal for joint technical studies on nuclear-test detection. Even with the "serious doubts" attached, this was a surprising concession; Russia had rejected similar U.S. proposals time and again...
With the wariness of a man accepting a cigar from a notorious practical joker, the White House noted that the letter "seems" to accept the U.S. position on the need for joint technical studies as a possible "basis for progress toward agreement on disarmament." Added Secretary of State Dulles, who has seen many a Red cigar explode: "We don't get optimistic quickly about these matters, but at least there is some progress...
...claim also made with some justification by New Mexico's junior Senator, Harry Truman's onetime Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson, now ranking Senate member of the powerful Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...