Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Industrial Base. The U.S. needs a great and growing technological base, a pool of scientific talent and a high level of scientific ability to 1) maintain the strategic balance in the cold war's battle of the laboratories, 2) cut down the crucial "lead time" in which new weapons are brought from drawing board to operational capability. "Providing we apply [this technological base] with a clear sense of direction, [it] should enable us to assign high priority to a greater variety of projects than the U.S.S.R...
...about neutralism, fear of Communist prowess, weakness of frail economies, inability to make sacrifices, U.S. allies as well as the U.S. have "an equal interest" in withstanding Communism in all-out or limited war. It is therefore in the equal interest of the U.S. and U.S. allies to 1) pool scientific and technical resources and brainpower, 2) tighten allied interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans-"to give reality to the European sense of participation, which...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter-and ran the floatingest poker game in Matthews Hall. When his devout Methodist father heard about the poker, he insisted that Neil take up bridge instead (years before, figuring his sons should sin at home if they sinned at all, he had bought them a pool table to keep them from hanging around pool halls). The upshot: Neil McElroy plays both bridge and poker, enthusiastically and well...
...Wall Street, wealthy Win Smith (his partner's-cut of the profits in 1956 was more than $150,000) is still a calm, friendly, unpretentious man. Each weekday he travels from his Manhattan apartment on East 72nd Street to his Wall Street office in a four-man car pool. He stays at his desk seven to ten hours a day, takes work home two or three nights a week. He relaxes on weekends at his 118-acre Connecticut farm near Litchfield by driving a tractor or romping with his seven-year-old son (a son by his first marriage...
...varsity swimming team shut out an extremely weak Pennsylvania squad as the Crimson's Jim Stanley set an impressive Harvard record in the 200-yard orthodox breaststroke Saturday night at the I.A.B. pool. The Crimson took every first and second place spot to score a maximum possible number of points...