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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the Kremlin made easy propaganda profits out of calling for a ban on nuclear tests. Then last August President Eisenhower countered with his two-part proposal: Let's stop tests for one year on a trial basis, beginning Oct. 31, and make a start, in Geneva that very same day, toward working out a reliable test-detection system. The Russians suddenly found half a dozen reasons to attack the plan for a Geneva meeting. Last week the President turned the screw by calling upon the Soviet government to announce whether it would send a delegation to Geneva...
Though her visit was billed as unofficial (and the U.S. was thus spared the need of according full honors), Queen Frederika had a serious purpose for her presence. Greece is soon to start operating its first nuclear reactor, and with King Paul, Frederika has become a student of nuclear physics. "For my part," she told a TIME reporter last week, "although I know that radioactive isotopes and such are of great medical benefit, I am really most interested in theoretical physics. You have to learn something about it to have this interest. But now that I do-I want...
...intact, earlier this year, after a 1,600-mile shoot). Still, the U.S. has yet to go the full distance with the Atlas 5,500-mile ICBM. In missiles, more than in any other field, the Russians may have the edge on the U.S., principally because of their head start. U.S. missile production should be able to catch up. If it does not, missiles could become the weapon that can give the Soviets promise of becoming a more even match for the West...
...nightmare is haunting that nation of shopkeepers, the British. Within ten weeks the six nations of "Little Europe" (France, Germany, Italy, Benelux) will start their 160-million-customer "common market"-and Europe's senior trading nation will be outside...
...British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping equal access to their continental markets...