Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the headlines the U.S., far from being outraged, was making an effort unthinkable in the days of the old French Fourth Republic to support De Gaulle's drive to restore French influence. At the discussion level in high Administration circles were proposals...
...convinced that the U.S., lacking clear ideas of what it is trying to achieve, had let the test-ban conference become an exercise in futility. Lost in the floundering was the U.S.'s sense-making proposal to ban easy-to-detect atmospheric tests (from ground level to 31 miles up)-a proposal (TIME, April 27) that could be put into effect on short notice if the Russians really wanted to start with a workable agreement...
...talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...
...Arndt feels that the adoption of the Statement assures the merger's success. "If we can have such unanimity on sueh a level as faith, then certainly no problem of organization is insoluble...
...like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast the storm is moving, its pressure, etc. A second gadget still under test is a big, inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies high enough to bring down pictures of an entire hurricane, several hundred miles across, give weathermen their first complete look at a big blow...