Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best sense, the Connery-McLaughlin operation was an example of TIME journalism. From the man on the scene had come a knowledgeable, fact-filled report to be handled by a skilled writer who on his own time has written short stories and three novels (latest: The Notion of Sin), and who could, out of his own experience, make contributions to what TIME hopes Indira Gandhi will consider an accurate portrayal of changing India...
...Corsica came up on the radar screen of the President's Boeing jet, some 5½ hours out of a refueling stop at Goose Bay, the President's pilot got a discouraging report. Not only was Rome getting the rain promised on his long-range forecast, but the storm was worse than expected. Minutes later Colonel William Draper was cautiously circling Rome's Ciampino Airport. Then, assured of a minimum ceiling, he made his instrument approach, splashed to a smooth landing, and pulled up just twelve minutes behind schedule in front of a cluster of Italian officialdom...
...operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns Hopkins University Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research. While their report followed the doom-criers' pattern of giving the Communists a monopoly on perfection and the U.S. a monopoly on faults, it nonetheless added up to a tough-minded analysis of U.S. defense problems, here and to come...
...world's first comprehensive missile arm. Result: "the greatest danger to its security that the United States has ever faced," in the form of a missile gap in the early 1960s. "There is as yet no active defense against an intercontinental ballistic missile in flight," warned the report, or any yet in sight. The report also found present liquid-fueled U.S. ICBMs to be wanting. Recommendation: "a most strenuous effort" behind solid-fuel missiles, e.g., the Air Force's Minuteman and the Navy's Polaris...
...agreed to total disarmament, the report went on, Communists could gain world supremacy through easy-to-conceal production of relatively few weapons. But the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could profitably agree on strategic forces "limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...