Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.British landings in North Africa in the fall of 1942, Bob Murphy took on the name, identification papers and guise of Lieut. Colonel McGowan, U.S. Army. He flew secretly to London for talks with Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower, then to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt. A key Murphy recommendation to General Eisenhower: a top-level U.S. officer should be smuggled into North Africa to persuade friendly French leaders to support the Allied invasion. Ike agreed, selected Lieut. General Mark Clark as his representative...
Silly as it was, the great surrender flap caused thoughtful comment from at least one quarter. Wrote Columnist David Lawrence: "The key words [of the Rand study] are 'surrender politically,' and that's what many journalists and spokesmen for appeasement are unwittingly advocating nearly every day. They have ridiculed 'massive retaliation' . . . They have insisted that America must take the 'first blow' in a nuclear...
...southwest, the Gaullist campaign is largely in the hands of tough Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who has launched a series of radio, TV and newsreel presentations to explain the proposed constitution. To ensure that his message does not get garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist Soustelle's brushoff reply to this accusation recalled to Figaro...
...support for the idea of an inter-American development bank caused hopeful smiles to blossom in every Latin American capital last week. Even more hopeful were signs in some" of the hemisphere's key countries that free-handed spending might be replaced with tight budgeting, that careless deficits would give way to more careful planning. The results promised to solve many of the new bank's problems before they become problems-and even before there is a bank...
Earth-Angled. In inertial navigation, every motion of a ship in any direction is accounted for and automatically computed to give precise distance traveled. The key instrument is an accelerometer -a container holding a weight that can move, against springs, toward one end or the other. The weight acts like a man's head that is jerked back because a cab driver starts suddenly. The weight thus measures a vehicle's thrust (acceleration), and from this information, an electronic computer can determine the vehicle's velocity. Inertial navigation uses two accelerometers, one to measure all north-south...