Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week were the eight leaders of his diplomatic, military, atomic energy and intelligence teams. Key men among them: Secretary of State Dulles, U.S. Disarmament Specialist Harold Stassen, and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The meeting followed hard on the heels of other top-level, top-secret conferences-by the National Security Council, by the State and Defense Departments' top brass. And it was called to allow the President to settle a disagreement that had broken-out in his official family over U.S. disarmament policy, and thus to crystallize a set of firm...
...picks up four-star rank as LeMay's hand-picked successor as boss of SAC. Long Island-born Bomber-Specialist Power quit the twelfth grade to work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper of Air Research & Development, where...
...Libby is not alarmed by strontium 90. In his widely publicized letter to Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer (TIME, May 6), he said that its threat to growing children is at present about the same as from "the additional dosage that a resident at sea level would receive from cosmic rays if he moved from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred feet high...
...number of manufacturers has dropped from 101 to 32, of whom ten or twelve do most of the business. Each time a producer quit, the efforts to liquidate his inventory touched off another shuddering round of price competition among the survivors. In addition, the whole TV price level slid downhill with General Electric's introduction of portable sets priced substantially below table or console models. Though portables were hailed as opening a brand-new market for the gadget-minded and the second-set crowd, they actually grabbed off 40% of the first-set and replacement market for a time...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...