Word: preventives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good faith, without any provision for inspection-and the stoppage made many a policy-planner uneasy. Last week Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone admitted at his first press conference what he had long argued in private (TIME. Sept. 1)-that stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential for U.S. defense, e.g., antimissile missiles. In its last test at Nevada Proving Grounds, before the stoppage, the AEC successfully set off a Hiroshima-sized underground shot ( 20 kilotons) that spouted a geyser of dirt but proved beyond doubt that the Russians...
...fighting in Algeria. Far from being apologetic. French Chief of Staff General Paul Ely last week demanded that NATO commit itself to the defense of all French territories in Africa. "Upon pain of death," declared General Ely, NATO must develop a "peripheral strategy" to prevent the U.S.S.R. from subverting Africa and thereby turning NATO's Mediterranean flank...
Thirteen hours later, borne on stretchers, swathed in blankets, their eyes shielded to prevent permanent damage from glaring camera lights, the twelve began to emerge from their 4-ft.-high culdesac. Doctors found the men an average 10 Ibs. lighter but in surprisingly good shape. They had found enough food in their own lunch pails and in those of dead companions in the chamber for four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine...
...appointing Flanagan to another executive position, Eisenhower is again insulting the honesty of the Civil Service and of the Federal Government. The American public is no longer gullible as a Freshman, but it would like to believe that some effort is being made to prevent obviously dishonest men from holding Federal office...
Last year, lights were erected at both ends of the bridge to prevent just such attacks. But there are no locks on the switchboxes, and ill-tempered thugs have discovered that when the switch is turned, the lights go off. Under cover of darkness, respectable Harvard citizens are divested of their slim, black pocket secretaries...