Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would drop dramatically in proportion to the strength of a civil defense system of blast and fallout shelters (see chart), now virtually nonexistent. With reasonable time to evacuate, a complete shelter system might cut the death cost to 3%. Other practical steps, e.g., sheltering mothballed machine tools and moving key industrial plants underground, might help U.S. industry return to normal within a decade...
...forth in the President's U.N. speech; 2) by rallying rival Lebanese parties behind compromise President-elect Fuad Chehab, he arranged a shaky sort of cease-fire and brought a promise of political order to Lebanon; 3) he shrewdly impressed Arab leaders, both friendly and hostile, with the key fact that the U.S. had shown itself able and willing to help its friends in the Middle East-while the U.S.S.R., for all its ballistic-blackmail diplomacy, had backed off when the going got rough...
...began by ferreting out a few priests willing to collaborate as a step to higher rank, installed them in key posts. "Patriotic Priest" Chang Shih-liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint...
...ground for an O.K.). French Dancers Pierre Le Cote and Claude Bessy appeared in Cannes with tutus and tunics. A cowed secretary at London's Ballet Rambert was talked out of a Giselle score; a second score was produced by an operative who dug up a key to Brussels' shuttered opera house. In Cannes, meanwhile, dancers, stranded with only the clothes they had worn on the night of the fire, rehearsed in bikinis while their laundered wardrobes dried...
...Key. A subtle, fascinating story of Britain's ocean-going tugboat captains of World War II, and of the woman several of them loved; with Sophia Loren, William Holden, Trevor Howard (TIME, July...