Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to enjoy it all immensely is old John Diefenbaker, the ex-Prime Minister who suffered the same wasp-stinging from Pearson and now leads the Conservative opposition. When Diefenbaker was under attack, there were major issues at stake such as Canada's nuclear commitment to the U.S. Now the rough and tumble in the House of Commons often sounds more like a schoolyard squabble. Diefenbaker makes the most of it to be devil Pearson and ridicule him before the splinter parties on which he depends for support...
...later of John F. Kennedy, whom he was assigned to brief on military matters in the 1960 campaign. Named Army Chief of Staff in 1962, he set about revitalizing the Army along the lines of Taylor's doctrine of "flexible" response rather than overwhelming reliance on massive nuclear retaliation. During Wheeler's two-year tenure as Chief of Staff, the Army rose from eleven to 16 combat-ready divisions, increased its strength from 870,000 troops...
...eyes, Scandinavia, like its handicrafts, is a happy union of past and present, of comfortable conformity and bold innovation. Skyscrapers live in harmony with magnificent 8th century castles; sleek new streetcars glide silently over cobbled streets. In Sweden, the visitor may be whisked from a new nuclear power plant outside Stockholm to 500-year-old Uppsala University, where the founder of modern botany, Carolus Linnaeus, studied in the 18th century. ("God created," say the tidy Swedes. "Linnaeus put things in order.") Stockholm cops, though issued guns during Khrushchev's visit, normally cling grimly to their accustomed sabers. Proud Viking...
...week. Reporting on the results of a six-year study of the effects of radiation on mice, Dr. John Frederick Spalding, 44, of the University of California's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, said that radiation may not be the genetic bugaboo it has been made out. In a nuclear world, man may survive, and even continue to look like man-whatever the mistakes of soldiers and diplomats...
...University in Jamaica, L.I., former U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce warned that Red China, now "isolated militarily and economically by both U.S.S.R. and U.S. policy," might turn desperately aggressive. In Southeast Asia, said she, "we must hold firm even if it becomes necessary to wield a nuclear stick over the head of Mao Tse-tung." But, added Speaker Luce, there are other ways to stop Chinese expansionism. "For example, what argument can be made for our present policy of trading with the Russians or selling them wheat that cannot also be made for trading with Red China...