Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word has got around, said Ike, that his request for a five-year extension of the reciprocal trade act was just a bargaining point. "I would like to set the record straight. It is a proposal dictated by the facts." Among the facts: six principal nations of Western Europe are embarked on a program of tariff reduction that will result in a tariff-free common market expected in 1962-and the U.S. will need the powers set out in the reciprocal trade act to bargain with the common market area to mutual advantage...
...getting their summit-meeting propaganda across to Asians. In Washington he found U.S. newspaper front pages giving solemn treatment to the old Russian proposals, which, in effect, were aimed at undermining the strong points of the free world. Dulles decided that it was high time to put on the record some reasons why the U.S. is dead set against going to a summit meeting on Russian terms...
...offensive submarine program is in promising shape. Last week Skate, third U.S. operational atomic submarine, crossed the Atlantic east to west under water in 7 days 5 hr., sliced 20 hours off the old England-to-U.S. record set by Nautilus, became the first boat to complete an Atlantic underwater round trip...
...this particular check point on Tito's "separate road to Socialism," a record 96% of the electors cast their votes (5.6% more than in 1953). Tito himself got the country's biggest majority (99.3%) in his Belgrade suburb of "New Class" villas. In the six contested races, even the losing candidates could be secure in the knowledge that Tito had picked them...
When well-fed Crooner Elvis Presley ambled into Fort Chaffee, Ark. for three days of induction processing, some 50 newsmen (plus Elvis' manager) were on hand to record every detail. Abetted by space-conscious Army brass, reporters gathered brief quotes at every step from reveille to taps (sample: "I had a good night's sleep, and I decided to get up"), gleefully watched the Presley poll being pared by a civilian barber, snapped for posterity US 53310761-whose normal garb runs to cat boots, loud sports jackets and open-necked shirts-in a singularly unpressed set of fatigues...