Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed by Ike last November to review the nation's military-assistance program, the committee members did some on-the-spot reporting themselves. Chairman Draper, 65, once Army Under Secretary (1947-49) and later top U.S. civilian representative to NATO (1952-53), personally inspected forces in the Korea-Japan-Formosa area. Oilman George Mc-Ghee, 47, an ex-Ambassador, to Turkey (1951-53), and Admiral Arthur Radford, tough-minded ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1953-57), toured the Middle East. Operating in five such groups, the committee members returned to Washington, in March handed...
...apply to him. The conference was a "farce," he charged on TV, called at the urging of Trujillo. Ignoring him, the delegates hammered out their proposal for ending such threats: a revival of the OAS's Inter-American Peace Commission, with power to investigate trouble on the spot. Formed after the 1940 foreign ministers' meeting at Havana, the peace committee was crippled in 1956 by an amendment that required both the accuser nation and the accused to agree to an investigation. The renewed committee will eliminate that hobble...
...main criterion for selecting a dumping spot is depth, with 1,000 fathoms (6,000 ft.) as a minimum. MSTS will drop its cargoes at points about 200 miles due east of Cape Cod, 105 miles south-southeast of Cape Henry, Va., 120 miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N.J., 240 miles southwest of Los Angeles and 150 miles west of San Francisco. Diving tests have shown that most of the hot material remains sealed off in the containers, but some leaks out, might yet show up in seafood. Oceanographers and marine biologists are studying the effects wrought on the radioactive...
Myra & Resignation. By comparison, Victors and Vanquished sounds more like romantic imagination than on-the-spot recollection from Author Stuart's shadowed war years. His Myra emerges first in peacetime Berlin, where Luke Cassidy, the novel's hero, is lecturing on English literature. He falls ill, and Nurse Myra ministers to him so angelically that later, after war has broken out, Cassidy feels he must see her again. He skips neutral Ireland to resume his post at Berlin University. Myra shows neither surprise nor joy when Cassidy returns from Ireland to announce his love and troubled decision...
...gentle winds of a Florentine May"; the city might have donned sackcloth to go with them, but instead, it quickly reverted to its old ways. Today, a simple plaque marks the place where Savonarola was burned; few tourists ever notice it in the pavement, are drawn instead to a spot only a short distance away, where an array of nude marble statues seem to look ironically down at the inconspicuous marker. Dominicans have made several attempts-the last only five years ago-to have their hero canonized. But sainthood is unlikely, say Vatican spokesmen, because the man Savonarola defied...