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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening seven-minute talk on the need for foreign aid, he got in over his head in trying to phrase the Administration's new warmth toward neutrals. Some nations that "are using the term 'neutral' with respect to attachment to military alliances," do not mean to claim neutrality between right and wrong. After all, he said, the U.S. constantly asserted its neutrality in the first 150 years of its history. If a neutral nation is attacked, he went on, world public opinion will be more favorably disposed toward it than if it had "announced its military association...
Last week it was becoming clear what the Kremlin wants of Tito. It does not mean to destroy his independence, but to put it to use. Stalin's old cronies and legitimate heirs want Tito to vouch for them in the world of friendly but doubting nations of Europe and Asia, when the full facts of Stalin's crimes become known. They want Tito as a kind of ambassador extraordinary among the neutral nations, selling the Kremlin line from a new stand, using his influence to reestablish what is now, or soon will be, wholly discredited...
Storm Buster. Cook, 34, learned to fly at 14 and soloed at 15. Last year, while dusting crops in the Nebraska panhandle, he made a sideline of busting hailstorms. Whenever an unusually black and mean-looking thunderhead drifted toward the sugar-beet fields of the North Platte Valley, Cook would fly into it, seeding its turbulent heart with silver-iodide particles. This maneuver provided the cloud with plenty of nuclei for ice to form on, so the hailstones did not grow big enough to fall and cut up the tender beet leaves...
...pursuance of your congressional committee duties would, whether you were right or wrong, invoke unending opposition of powerful political and academic forces. Almost alone, you went ahead. Under another great President you chose to serve though you knew that under one so colorful and popular, the Vice Presidency would mean an oblivion deeper than the shades of night . . . You have put into that office a maximum and mighty service of legislative accomplishment, of reconciliation of diverse forces . . . and promotion of international understanding and good will...
...sore need of power, is concentrating on one proved but cumbersome method (using a gas coolant), which is fast becoming obsolescent; Russia plans seven reactors; the U.S.. however, is actively planning to build and operate all eight types, in addition is considering at least two others. This means that the U.S. will lag in actual atomic-power output; it should also mean that the U.S. will emerge with the best method. A recent editorial in the Journal of British Nuclear Engineering crowed about prospective British ascendancy over the U.S. in atomic-power output, but admitted: "At least...