Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These reports were phony. They had been planted as an elaborate preparatory touch to the biggest air-defense exercise in history-Sky Shield II. When Sky Shield II actually started last weekend, all commercial and private flying over the U.S. and Canada ceased for twelve hours, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. C.S.T., and some 2,100 commercial flights were canceled...
Wider Choice. Behind the preparations being made by Abe Abrams and his U.S. Army fighting comrades lies the decision made by President John Kennedy last spring to increase the flexibility of the nation's defenses. The main shield of the U.S. remains the thermonuclear deterrent-the strategic missiles and bombers meant to discourage Nikita Khrushchev. But Kennedy holds that the Army must also be ready to fight with gunpowder or with tactical nuclear weapons anywhere from the plains of Europe to the rain forests of Asia. "We intend to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear...
...dailies still carry mastheads whose fusty design and pompous preachments seem unchanged since reporters wore celluloid collars. The Baltimore Sun's front page has advocated LIGHT FOR ALL since 1840, 41 years before the city was electrified. Along with the Hearst emblem, an eagle roosting on a starred shield, the San Francisco Examiner clings loyally to the pet name-THE MONARCH OF THE DAILIES-bestowed on it by the Chief 74 years...
...object was to shield smaller business, Justice's move seemed to make little sense, since slipping City National might well go under if the merger were blocked. And why the rush? Justice had previously led the banks to believe that if it contested the merger at all, it would wait until after it had been consummated...
...based on the grim realization that it is not merely hopelessly expensive, but tragically impossible, to protect 180 million Americans against the blast and flame of nuclear explosions; in a full-scale nuclear attack, as many as 50 million might die. What can be done, however, is to shield survivors from the deadly radioactive fallout that can drift down wind as far as 200 miles from a bomb blast. To protect against that danger, the $207.6 million requested last week will be spent mainly on a fallout shelter program...