Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changing too fast to keep up with ("and I'm not getting any younger"). And he believes that motion picture animation is a medium particularly well suited for interpreting scientific developments in human terms--a function, he feels, that becomes ever more vital in an age of automation and nuclear power...
...mean much in their state. Invariably, Salinger's campaign pitch includes recollections of the days of glory with Jack Kennedy, of his own meeting in Moscow with "Chairman Khrushchev," of how he and a few other New Frontier notables spent seven days and seven nights "looking down the nuclear barrel" at Castro. He insists that he knows more people in Washington than Cranston, and as a Senator could get past more doors. Replies Cranston: "It is one thing to get in the door. It is another thing to know what to do when you're inside...
...prime example came last year in President Kennedy's nuclear test ban treaty. When it was first proposed, Dirksen expressed "grave doubts" about it and its effect on the U.S.'s atomic strength. But the Administration, wanting as nearly unanimous approval as possible, needed all the Republican votes it could get. One fine day, Dirksen went to the White House for a chat with Kennedy. He argued that with a few "assurances" from the President, he could still his own doubts and those of most of the Republican holdouts. Kennedy eagerly agreed, the assurances were given, Dirksen cooperated...
...cable to Japan. In typically prudent fashion, the telephone company is preparing for just about any eventuality: late this year it will finish a $200 million underground cable across the U.S. that will be able to carry important calls even if all above-ground wires are destroyed in a nuclear attack. It is also developing a wide array of new equipment, including pushbutton phones, which have just gone into use in 35 cities, and a new electronic switching system so swift that it will be able to handle 1,000,000 telephone calls between two ticks of the clock...
Hughes said it was too early to assess the Administration's policy in two other areas, Vietnam and the multi-nuclear force in Europe, because the policy appears not to be final. He added that while the direction seems likely to "go the wrong way--toward increased military spending," these are two areas where peace groups should work and exert pressure...