Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with General Dwight Eisenhower at the Normandy beachhead in 1944, came a message out of the night: "Glad to have you with us-Undaunted we remain." For nearly 16 hours the Columbine flew at 13,000 feet or less so that the cabin pressure could be kept at sea level as a health precaution. President Dwight Eisenhower was returning to Paris, where an emotional welcome and the most portentous meeting of Western heads of state in 40 years awaited...
While Kennan thinks that a summit conference would be worthless (TIME, Dec. 2), he believes that Western nations should begin to negotiate, at an ambassadorial level, some sort of deal in which the Soviets would pull their military forces out of the satellites in return for the neutralization and reunification of Germany...
...Dopesters who five weeks ago hailed M.I.T.'s Dr. James R. Killian Jr. as the new U.S. missile czar are discovering that Killian is not-and never intended to be -any such thing. Killian sits in on Pentagon briefings and high-level policy discussions, has gathered a staff, settled down to do what Ike asked him to do, i.e., help whip the budget into shape, broaden basic research, improve scientific education. He shies away from issuing orders, saves his advice for the President's ear, has already used this influence to fan in the President a more informed...
...nation Atlantic Alliance also offered in a windup communique to meet the Russians on the foreign minister level to discuss disarmament, an issue now stalled in the United Nations. British sources suggested later that other issues also might be discussed...
Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, pointed out that a group of professors under the chairmanship of Jerrold Zacharias, professor of Physics at M.I.T., has made a study of the problems involved in presenting physics to students at the secondary level. These professors, from both the University and M.I.T., might provide an excellent basis for the beginning of such a committee, he noted...