Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already, the Navy is at work on a weapons system that mates the solid-fuel intermediate-range Polaris to the nuclear submarine (TIME, March 3). Now, with his decision to move ahead into the research and development phase of Minuteman, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, only 20 weeks in office, is driving for a second-generation ring around the U.S.S.R. designed to deter war and to support U.S. diplomacy through the mid-and late-1960s. Target date for the first 50 to 60 Minuteman missiles on the defense line: July...
...streets throb with Cadillacs and motor scooters, while scarcely 50 miles away aboriginal Kubus still live in trees. There are modern textile factories on Java but. close by, a tiger may feast on a wild pig or water buffalo. Elephants trumpet in the rain forest; single-horned rhinos move like tanks through the deltaic swamps; the 10-ft. Komodo lizard looks out from thick underbrush like a dragon from the pages of Arthurian romances...
...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...
...Havana's Hotel Lincoln was a tall young man in a leather jacket. "Fangio, you must come with me," he ordered. "I am a member of the 26th of July revolutionary movement." One of Fangio's friends picked up a paperweight and cocked his arm. The pistol moved alertly. "Stay still!" its owner said. "If you move, I'll shoot." Fangio went obediently to a waiting car and was whisked...
...varsity swimming team will face Yale this afternoon at New Haven, where, for the ninth consecutive year, it will attempt to move out of second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, and for the ninth consecutive year it will remain in second place. The Crimson simply does not have the team strength to defeat the Elis; in fact, the varsity will find it extremely difficult to win more than 19 points...