Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic Gaullist suspicion that the U.S. might not defend Europe. In case of an all-out war, said McNamara, the alternative of "Europe or the U.S." did not exist in Washington planning. In nuclear terms, an attack on Western Europe would be an attack on the U.S. As proof, McNamara pointed out that the U.S. has placed in NATO more than 800 ICBMs, more than 300 Polaris missiles and hundreds of bombers. The aggregate yield of nukes stored in Germany alone, McNamara added, is more than 5,000 times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb...
...sought possible countermoves to Russian aggression in Europe other than nuclear Armageddon, Washington kept pressing for more conventional forces and began talking about a "graduated response." De Gaulle cited this as proof that the U.S. would not defend Europe unless the U.S. itself was attacked. So France pushed ahead with its own little atomic program-after all, argued De Gaulle jealously, Britain had its nuclear force...
...Phoenix, a similar avalanche of reader inquiries inspired the Arizona Republic to set the record straight with some whimsy of its own in an editorial entitled, "YES VIRGINIA . . ."* Said the Republic: "Telephones have not stopped ringing as one after another caller has demanded that we either present proof that Hoover does in fact exist or else print a retraction. After a thorough day-long investigation, the Republic is now in a position to report that J. Edgar Hoover does in fact exist and is in the best of health. What our investigators further turned up is the fact that...
...balancing act with some skill and has managed, by providing the safety valve of the Bancroft strip, to accxodate the needs of an increasingly active body of students and nonstudent hangers-on; and that the growing attraction of the Berkeley campus for militants and activists of all shades was proof that freedom was not being stifled. I want to make these poins now, not only because no one likes to be misunderstood, but because the Administration of the University of California has been the butt of far more criticism than it deserves...
...raising their share of it rapidly. Unlike the cheap and flimsy creations of old, most of the artificial trees are apt to be polyvinyl wonders that resemble the real thing in all but falling needles and forest smell. They are not only flameproof-one big selling point-crush-proof and fadeproof, but can be stored away in a box. And though some sell for as much as $130, most sell for well under $25. Fifty thriving artificial-tree companies have grown up in the U.S. to supply the market (v. only seven a few years ago), and imports are arriving...