Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspection worthless; 2) U.S. scientists discovered that they had seriously overestimated the ability of inspectors to detect underground explosions. Alarmed by the miscalculation, the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission and some members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy urgently asked President Eisenhower to modify the U.S. offer lest the U.S. get tied to a crippling agreement that an enemy could violate without detection...
...Lest anyone think he was slowing down at 71, the Archbishop had a direct word for his Anglicans. Said he, on his arrival in Tokyo: "My trip through the East to this point has left me untouched by mental, moral or physical indigestion. To be the Archbishop of Canterbury, you must be tough...
...great burden of living up to the Administration's expectations of them and withstanding the many temptations which the near-absence of administrative control invites. It is thus legitimate for the bitter student-leader to feel that he is his own conscience; with fellow students apathetic and administrators fearful lest they become paternalistic, he is given quite a free hand...
...Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover exploded with a touching plea. Unless Congress mows down the growing underbrush of Pentagon committees, he warned, "we will wind up with all committees and no work done. Our people have no time to do their work, for fighting committees. We need some protection." Lest anyone misunderstand, Rickover noted an exception: congressional committees are just dandy...
Actually, Henry Ford II and Chairman Ernest Breech had not intended to say anything about Ford's economy car until it was ready to be marketed, lest it keep people from buying this year's cars. What forced the company's hand was the fact that the Ford Foundation is preparing to sell some 2,000,000 shares of Ford Motor stock. Ford lawyers decided that the registration statement on the sale, required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would have to take note of Ford's plans for the small car. Under...