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Word: nuclear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question is whether Goldwater himself is fit to handle nuclear weapons. Can a man with his history of shooting off his mouth be trusted not to shoot off something worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...deal different from that of 1964. At first, several significant issues seemed likely to emerge in this year's campaign. There was civil rights, for example, but its real importance was quickly lost in an emotionally charged fog about "law and order" and "white backlash." There was the nuclear-control issue, but Lyndon Johnson has let it die by refusing to answer Goldwater's questions about it. There is Viet Nam, but it takes two to debate, and Lyndon just hasn't been in a debating mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign: What Kind of Madness? | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...they argue that they "pioneered" the Tories' belated decision to seek admission to the Common Market, to which Labor is still strongly opposed. The Liberals' chief disagreement with the present government is over Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's insistence that Britain must retain its nuclear deterrent. On most other issues, however, the 14-page party manifesto issued two weeks ago falls disappointingly short of its slogan, "Think for Yourself - Vote Liberal." Indeed, on such divisive questions as restricting colored immigration and tying industrial wages to productivity, the Liberal position is virtually indistinguishable from the calculatedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: On the Seesaw | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Despite its carnival air, the great silver-grey rock is still first and foremost the world's most impregnable natural fortress - one that might have been designed for the nuclear age. It is manned by 1,000 men of the Royal Air Force, some 700 Royal Navy personnel, and two companies of British soldiers. The troops, men from the Middlesex Regiment, provide a colorful guard for the governor, train Gibraltar's draftees, and keep ready to support the island's civil authorities in any emergency that might arise. The limestone Rock is a rabbit warren of caverns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gibraltar: The Most Happy Colony | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...Robert Vaughn) is set to battle weekly against the malevolent members of THRUSH, which stands for bads and is an international organization "with no allegiance to any country or ideal." Last week THRUSH was trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening dress tried to prevent the killing and were soon being boiled like lobsters in live steam from the reactor. If all this sounds like the late Ian Fleming, it is. Fleming, while only fleetingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Second Week Premi | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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