Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unended Danger. The problem for Ben-Gurion was not just to suppress terrorism, but to convince Israelis that the terrorists' promises of victory through violence were deceptive. Last week he demanded and got a vote of confidence (24-7) from the Council of State. Said he: "The incident may be closed, but the danger hasn't ended ... It would be a mistake to depend upon the army alone [to suppress terror]. The entire people of Israel are called upon to overcome the danger." Terrorists had flourished during the British mandate. Now, said Ben-Gurion, Israel must unite...
...general hitched up his paunch, went on berating Guatemala's President. "Ever since Arévalo took office," he rumbled, "that man has caused trouble in the Caribbean. Now we've got a hell of a problem brewing around Central America, and something has got to be done to stop it. Look at that Figueres, a tool of Arévalo. God knows what he's up to now that he's got hold of Costa Rica. And all those Dominican and Nicaraguan exiles. I wonder if those birds in all those plots realize that Central...
Moving the heavy equipment to the right places in a hurry was the biggest problem. The next biggest was whiskers. Every dark-bearded man who appeared before the camera without makeup, no matter how clean-shaven, looked hirsute. After the first few telecasts of lined, lipless ladies and black-bristled men, there was a rush for makeup. Governor Dewey did an expert job dabbing the finishing touches on his own pancake base for interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives...
...Andrew Kalitinsky of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. (which is working under the Atomic Energy Commission) recently explained the problem at a Manhattan meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. In outline, the job looks simple. A "nuclear reactor" (essentially a controlled, slow-exploding atom bomb) gives off most of its energy as heat. One way to do the trick is to put a reactor in place of the combustion chambers of a turbojet engine (see chart). A compressor forces air into the forward end of the engine. Heated and expanded by the nuclear reactor, the air shoots toward the rear...
Probably the toughest problem of all is how to keep from killing the crew by radiation. As Dr. Kalitinsky puts it: "The radiation intensities encountered in nuclear reactors must be reduced by factors of many billion before they are safe for the human organism...