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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Dwight Eisenhower moved quickly down the main aisle of the United Nations' General Assembly chamber, nodding and smiling at the applause. He mounted the central dais, sat down on the high-backed blue chair that the U.N. brings out for special visitors. Introduced by New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro. president of the General Assembly, President Eisenhower stepped up to the dark green marble lectern, laid down an open notebook, and began his first United Nations address since his historic Atoms for Peace speech five years ago. In 1953 the President stirred hearts and minds with...
Meet Lieut. Colonel McGowan. When France fell in June 1940, Ambassador Bullitt returned to the U.S., and Murphy became the top-ranking American in a France divided between the German occupation in the North and the Vichy French government in the South. Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa. In December 1940, Murphy went to Algiers, negotiated a deal with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy...
...Main Street in tiny Boyd, Texas (pop. 550) is two-lane, string-straight, smooth-paved-and ideal as a drag strip for the rambunctious local hot-rodders, who went roaring through town at night, leaving empty beer cans and angry citizens in their wild wake. Finally, in October 1956, Boyd decided to stop the hot-rodders by hiring cops for the first time. By last week, plainly convinced that the cure was worse than the disease, Boyd was a town full of cop haters...
...Joseph's Mercy Hospital at Pontiac, Mich., a receptionist glanced up one night last week to see "a zombie" stagger hunched and stiff-legged through the main door. The man wore shoes, socks, and a checked cotton bathrobe; his body was charred, his eyes swollen, his mouth puffy. "Can you get me to the emergency room?" he groaned. As doctors gave him blood and plasma but no hope, the man insisted he was "John Doe from Washington," would say no more...
This month, when the Air Force's Atlas sped 2,500 miles over the Atlantic, pictures of its virtually blunt nose seemed strange to the streamline-minded. But current Atlas and Thor noses are likely to stay blunt for good reason. Developed by General Electric, they are made mainly of heavy copper, which helpfully spreads and diffuses the heat. But the main design trick is to keep the nose from ever getting too hot. The bluntness creates a shielding shock wave out front that cuts the velocity of the air actually hitting the nose to subsonic speed, then slows...