Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called it last week. The opportunity presented by Poland and Hungary, Dulles told the NATO council in Paris, was to encourage what he called the prospective "disintegration" of the Soviet system. The danger was that, harassed by such rebellions, the Russians might launch into rash and desperate foreign adventures. And the difficulty, in such a situation, was how best to help Hungary...
...launch "a fund-raising campaign for the contraction of Harvard University" with the desired quota set at a round 100,000 dollars, with the stipulation that if this fund reaches its quota before that of President Pusey, it shall be declared the winner and applied as the Society has seen fit, that...
ATLAS ICBM will be test-fired within 18 months. Convair plans to launch its intercontinental missile (range: 5,000 miles) from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. into Caribbean and Atlantic firing range...
...Sunday rally, Sheehan said, is designed to launch a national appeal for the kind of strong action advocated earlier this week in a petition circulated by the Committee for a Free Hungary. The petition, reportedly signed by 500 people including two Housemasters, calls on the U.S. to sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and refuse to recognize the Kadar government, if U.N. action proves ineffective...
...Date. State Department officials are sure that the British and French callously deceived or misled them from this date onward. On Oct. 23 Pineau dashed over to London, reportedly to tell Eden that Israel was all ready to launch preventive war on Nasser. Ben-Gurion's moment was well chosen because, it was reasoned, 1) the U.S. would not dare move decisively against Israel on the verge of a presidential election, and 2) the Hungarian rebellion, then at its height, would keep Russia's hands tied...