Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the President, the order would be flashed to SAC headquarters in Omaha, which would relay it to the U.S. officer in Britain in command of U.S. warheads. From the Prime Minister, a parallel order would go to Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross, commander of the Thor squadrons. Air Marshal Cross would transmit the order to each Thor station. The R.A.F. officer, inserting his key in the lower slot, would start the fully automatic 15-minute countdown to nuclear...
...Towers last week, MacArthur received a Japanese diplomat, who gave the old soldier the highest decoration that Japan ever confers upon a foreigner who is not a head of state: the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers. Said MacArthur: "I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander...
Life Is Time's Fool. There is a rough parallel between Shakespeare's day and the present. The Elizabethan view of man was being threatened by a triple revolution. Copernicus had challenged the earth-centered universe, Montaigne had skeptically consigned man to the lowest rung of the animal kingdom, and Machiavelli had argued that statecraft was a matter of the basest self-interest, devoid of moral principle. Modern man has seen Einstein throw a curve into the cosmos, Freud lift the lid on the cauldron of the unconscious, and Marx upturn continents with the doctrine of dialectical material...
...Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway-which cross the continent from Seattle to St. Paul on almost parallel routes-last week announced that they are close to a firm agreement to merge. A combination of the two roads, bitter rivals in the days of the empire builders, would produce a system with 17,492 miles of track, the longest in the U.S. The two roads' revenue last year amounted to $778 million, second only to the Pennsylvania's. Included in the merger would be the railroads controlled by the two lines: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1959 revenues...
...common ground of understanding. Such men as Powers and the agency they represent deserve our overwhelming gratitude for undertaking the perilous task of reducing the element of '"surprise." The idiots in this instance are the Pollyannas who, in blind faith, would close their minds to the possible parallel of tea and vodka...