Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within minutes after Sherman Adams called, Nixon's black Fleetwood Cadillac pulled up outside the White House. Nixon walked up a flight of stairs to Adams' office (he considers the elevator too slow, rarely uses it). Adams sketched the situation: the President had suffered a chill, had taken a sedative and was sleeping. Asked Nixon: Had a diagnosis been made? Not yet, said Adams, but there would be one by morning. Adams said the White House staff thought that the state dinner for Morocco's King Mohammed V should go on as scheduled that night and that...
...devise equipment that will cope in some way with the enemy's latest dodges. About the oldest passive electronic defense is "chaff"* strips of aluminum foil tossed from an airplane to give a reflection that an enemy radar mistakes for another airplane. This worked fine with the comparatively slow bombers of World War II, but the wind-drifted puffs of chaff are too easy to distinguish from fast-flying modern bombers. A promising improvement is to fire rockets loaded with chaff ahead of the bomber as a sort of smoke screen...
With the death of Diego Rivera in Mexico City last week at 70, the Western Hemisphere lost its most commanding painter and one of its thorniest personalities. A huge, suave, slow-moving, spherical creature with great sophistication and prodigious energy, he made a practice of overwhelming women-and all opponents but the last. The rich enjoyed him as a comradely collector and bon vivant (he left a million-dollar estate plus a collection of pre-Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept...
Chrysler Corp.'s heavy stock of 1957 models cut into its 1958 sales (although the industry as a whole had whittled '57 stocks to a manageable 240,000). Plymouth sales were just fair, Dodge and De-Soto slow, but Chrysler and Imperial were up. Percentagewise, best gains were made by American Motors. Sales of its Rambler in November's first 20 days climbed...
Howard Fast is very slow off the Marx. When he joined the Communist Party in 1943, the world had already been treated to the Moscow purge trials and the Nazi-Soviet pact, and in his successful novels (Citizen Tom Paine, The Unvanquished) he had already tried to hoist the Red flag retroactively over the American Revolution. He "saw the Communists as the bravest and most skillful fighters for man's freedom." Now he says, "I was mistaken," but it took him nearly 14 years-until Khrushchev's mid-1956 "secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust...