Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy-not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said Dwight Eisenhower, in a nationwide radio-TV speech, and he predicted an inevitable tragedy "if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and the weak...
...Nasser. Yet when Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo, Nasser evasively refused to commit himself to "radio disarmament," but proclaimed to his assembled United Arab States Council: "We will not put down our arms until the occupation forces withdraw from Jordan, Lebanon, Aden, Oman, Algeria and the entire Arab world." In Damascus, the Nasser-controlled newspaper Al Nasr kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged...
...Radio Giveaway. Another detecting method is by means of radio waves caused by the gamma rays from a nuclear explosion above the surface of the earth or sea. Radio waves from a one-kiloton test can be detected 4,000 miles away under favorable Circumstances, and can locate within 20 miles an explosion 600 miles away...
...experts pointed out, has its faults. Acoustic waves from a volcanic eruption, for instance, can be mistaken for waves from a nuclear test. Seismic waves from earthquakes can be misinterpreted, too. Nuclear tests deep under the earth or ocean yield no radioactive fallout, send out no air waves or radio waves. But they do send waves through the ocean, the earth, or both. Each type of test is detectable by one or more methods...
...claims "the future was never brighter" and notes that the student is assailed from all sides with jazz--from the hi-fi, the radio, and magazines like The New Yorker and Saturday Review. "The Square record stores sell huge stocks of jazz records, and I know for sure the Turntable made sixty per cent of their sales in Jazz...