Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scope of BMEWS is rated by Air Force men as "something fantastic." While construction work by Army engineers goes on at Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth...
...more important than the outcome of Capitol Hill's political give-and-take over spending, for the theories of today are the policies of tomorrow-and the day after that. Central question before the debaters: Does the Administration's fight for a balanced budget-with its stand against chronic price up-creep-help or hinder economic growth...
...high visibility. Busiest potshotter: New York's Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a warm Stevenson admirer, who attacked Kennedy on two charges: 1) Jack, author of prizewinning Profiles in Courage, "understands what courage is and admires it, but has not quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain, is "spending oodles of money all over the country" on Jack's candidacy, "probably has paid representatives in every state." Challenged to name one hired agent, Mrs. Roosevelt...
Near the debate's end, moderator Rutstein asked his distinguished guests some blunt questions. "Senator Neuberger, all afternoon you have avoided the issue of socialized medicine, and talked only about government aid to research. Would you tell us, what is your stand?" Neuberger replied that "socialized medicine is no longer an issue, nor do I consider it desirable...
...stand together but in the methods of defense we must remain elastic," he said...