Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While developing an arsenal of ballistic missiles for retaliatory or offensive power, the U.S. is also working on defense against Russian ICBMs. Until recently, scientists and military men generally agreed that a nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which a nation could do nothing to save its cities from destruction. Last week General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff, announced that the Air Force has developed a new radar system that could detect an oncoming ICBM as much as 3,000 miles away. Based on the ORDIR...
...H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time beating off the assaults of Britain-based Valiant jet bombers. But by early afternoon, Blue carrier planes got through to make dummy atom attacks on Norway's ports, bridges and airfields. Into the midst of this earnest make-believe strayed a Russian trawler-a real one. The Russian, being overtaken, had the right of way and held it, passing diagonally through the entire NATO fleet as the big ships refueled and moved beyond...
...Steering Committee accepted a U.S. proposal to put aside Red China's perennial membership bid. The committee rejected a Greek request to debate British "atrocities" in Cyprus, settling for a less controversial listing: "The Cyprus Question." Even Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, with his mechanical repetition of familiar Russian themes, surprised the U.S. delegation by his relatively moderate tone, as Soviet polemics...
...Communist members of the Israeli delegation to last summer's Moscow Youth Festival returned to Jerusalem full of the "ravenous passion" they found for Israel among Russian Jewry. Notwithstanding 40 years' indoctrination that was supposed to have turned them into good, godless Communists, Russian Jews traveled as far as 4,000 miles to see the delegates, swarmed about them in their hotel, paid 50 rubles for an Israeli festival emblem (other delegations' emblems sold for a ruble each), bought up all the tickets for the Israeli singing and dancing performances. "By the end of our tour," says...
...founded Air India airline and the Tatas' life insurance business, which the government did take over, nationalization schemes came to naught. The chief reason was that if India bought out Tata Steel it would not have funds to finance more steel capacity. The government decided to call in Russian, West German and British engineers to build three government-owned steel plants, let Tata live...