Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alphabet Soup. NORAD, under the command of Four-Star Air Force General Earle Partridge, is a joint U.S.-Canadian venture (Partridge's second in command is Canada's Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon) with Air Force, Army and Navy each marked out for specific assignments, e.g., the Navy for seagoing radar pickets, the Air Force for intercepting enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice...
...reason why he cannot tell, but New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, powerful vice chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, knows this full well: he does not like Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss. Although the origins of the feud are obscure, the fact of Anderson's violent dislike for Strauss has been known for years-and by last week it had Clint Anderson, ordinarily a reasonable man, roaring ahead with a continuing attack on Lewis Strauss...
...Strauss began when Senator Anderson, appearing on the Meet the Press television program, accused the U.S. military of "inserting something" in atomic bombs to increase, rather than reduce, atomic fallout (TIME, May 12). Last week Lewis Strauss replied to Anderson's charge in a calm, factual letter to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Chairman Carl Durham of North Carolina. "Atomic bombs," said Strauss, "are only taken from stockpiles for purposes of routine inspection or for modification or improvement. No material is 'inserted' in bombs for the purpose of increasing the amount of fission products...
...Anderson vendetta against Strauss could have far-reaching national consequences: if the Democrats control the Congress next year. Anderson will probably be chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and thus the man on Capitol Hill with whom Strauss must work most closely. Last week, summing up the possible results. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, an old friend to both Anderson and Strauss, described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that...
...from Justice Department lawyers. With that, the investigation picked up again. Last week the grand jury indicted Adam Clayton Powell on charges that he helped prepare a fraudulent 1951 tax return for his wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, and evaded payment of taxes on $3,700 in a 1952 joint return. Moreover, at week's end, New York's Democratic organization was considering dropping him from its 1958 slate...