Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages of the 4 lb. 4 oz. tome sent to Capitol Hill this week lay one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower Administration: a budget offering a small surplus (est. $70 million) for the fiscal year that begins next July 1. But almost overlooked in the light of that achievement was another fact: the fiscal 1960 budget, despite its balance, is also the largest in U.S. peacetime history...
WHEREVER he went-and, as it turned out, whatever he said-Anastas Mikoyan got rave notices from his cold-war-weary U.S. audiences. "Forthright," was the word used by Detroit industrialists after lunch with Mikoyan. "Refreshingly frank," glowed a U.S. State Department official. But cold print throws another light on Mikoyan's forthrightness and frankness. Traveling quote by quote with Anastas Mikoyan...
...Douglas Aircraft Co., $513.4 million, including Navy jet fighters and bombers, Air Force light bombers, Nike antiaircraft missiles and Thor IRBM...
...back. Six rebel executioners fired, and the bodies jackknifed into the grave. Two more prisoners stepped forward, then two more and two more-and the grave slowly filled. Lieut. Enrique Despaigne, charged with 53 murders, got a three-hour reprieve at the request of TV cameramen, who wanted the light of a full dawn...
...President Eisenhower's desk stood a domed metal gadget about half the size of a derby hat. Current flowing from it spun a small propeller. Named SNAP III (for System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power), the little gadget is an atomic battery small and light enough to go into a satellite and keep its instruments and radio voice going at least ten times as long as any chemical battery that the Russians or the U.S. have yet employed...