Word: reports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radiation, the "silent killer," could cause three or four times as many deaths as the blast and heat from exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective measures . . . A successful fallout protection program can give assurance of survival to millions who might otherwise die or be seriously crippled from radiation sickness...
Better Deterrent. What any serious fallout-shelter program is up against was evident in the jeering reception that the task force's report got from much of New York's press. "Ridiculous," cried Long Island's Newsday. "Smells of defeatism," muttered the New York Daily News. In rare agreement, the Wall Street Journal and the Fair Dealish New York Post cried that deterrent power, not shelters, is the only safeguard against nuclear attack...
...mixed menacing warnings and unyielding basic positions with genial talk about how agreement was possible. But the most significant Russian clue of all, though buried in the midst of invective, was Andrei Gromyko's hurt complaint that the Russian position had been misrepresented in Herter's TV report to the U.S. If an East German-West German committee were set up to explore German reunification, there would be no change in Berlin's status during their 18 months' talks (as the Russians proposed, or 2½years, as the West suggested). But afterward, if they failed...
Down Cuba's 937-mile Central Highway six months ago, Fidel Castro rolled in triumph; presumably to restore the country's democracy and peace. Retracing the rebels' victorious tank treads last week, TIME Correspondent Bruce Henderson found a country tense and bitterly divided. His report...
...place in the industry since World War II. Steelmen have spent $12 billion for new plant and equipment, poured millions into research. Once a prince-and-pauper industry that lost money at a downturn in the economy, the steel industry has become so efficient that it was able to report healthy profits during the recession (1958: $877 million), while operating at only 60.6% of capacity. So much has the industry changed its complexion that steel stocks, once considered a risky speculation in a cyclical industry, are now considered attractive growth investments. As a result, they have been steadily moving...