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...Obvious. In the slow, careful phrases of Chairman George H. Mahon, a tough-minded Texan who has tackled his job as a Defense Department watchdog with fierce integrity, the report spelled the real meaning of the deterrent. The mixed force, said Mahon & Co., not only makes it tough for an enemy to choose targets for attack, it forces him to maintain a defense against a number of different weapons systems. "This mixed-force capability is being planned or provided through the employment of the large ICBM installations hardened against nuclear attack, the smaller mobile Minuteman ICBM, the elusive Polaris fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The True Deterrent | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

Negative Report. In St. Louis, a burglar broke into Mahon Motors Inc. for the sixth time, carted off the automatic camera police had installed to trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Henry N. Mahon '23, Business Manager of the Bulletin, explained yesterday that he does not ordinarily accept advertising copy concerning a candidate for the Board of Overseers. "We do not want to get involved with the Foundation," he said, "and the Bulletin is certainly not going to help those people...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Veritas Foundation Hits Alumni Bulletin Policy | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

...response to Roosevelt's charge that the Bulletin "evidently does not want to give the alumni any information on the nomination of Dip Bunche," Mahon pointed out that he is not required to give reasons for the rejection of any advertising copy. "If we did not have these restrictions," he continued, speaking "in general terms," the Bulletin would "be at the mercy of every crackpot in the world." Mahon added that "the Veritas Foundation seems to thrive on the controversial aspect of things...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Veritas Foundation Hits Alumni Bulletin Policy | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

...musical Playboy, retitled The Heart's a Wonder, is pure Synge: the rollicking story of Christy Mahon, the peasant boy who became a hero by telling a tale of parricide. The scene is still Michael James Flaherty's peat-smoked shebeen (pub), and the rich poetic dialogue is still, as Synge said a good play must be, "as fully flavored as a nut or apple." For music the O'Farrell sisters borrowed Irish ballads. As for the lyrics, they did a remarkable job of bending Synge's own lifelike speech into rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Synge Sings | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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