Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's case was simple but grave: the U.S. was entrusting its defense to a "fallacious concept"-the atomic blitz, and an inadequate weapon-the Air Force's six-engined B-36 bomber. Said Radford: "The B-36 has become, in the minds of the American people, a symbol of a theory of warfare-the atomic blitz-which promises them a cheap and easy victory if war should come...
...Vulnerable." The Air Force, he said, had pictured the six-engined B-36 as flying majestically at 40,000 ft., undetected by radar, unreachable by enemy fighters. Admiral Radford flatly disputed such claims...
What started the controversy was the draft convention's Article Six, which called on all parties to abolish legislation requiring prostitutes' registration, or "any measures for supervision or notification." The French delegation proposed an amendment, making medical inspection legal. But, objected Brazil's Enrico Penteado, such a measure would merely encourage prostitution by furnishing its; practitioners with "a Good Housekeeping; seal of approval...
...meeting was expected to last two days. Actually, it was over in six hours. "It was found," wrote one Washington newsman, reporting a phenomenon rare in international councils today, "that areas of disagreement on practical steps to be taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting consisted of the Atlantic Treaty nations' defense ministers or their representatives, collectively known as the Defense Committee. They had come to Washington to set up and set in motion the defense apparatus outlined by their colleagues, the foreign ministers, last month (TIME, Sept...
Most West Berliners today "trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...