Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident that the Soviet goal is to produce hundreds of these undersea satellites," he said in a statement urging that this country build "at least 100 missile-launching submarines at the earliest possible date...
September. Harvard's psychiatric staff is called in by coach Yovicsin to bolster the morale of the new members of the football team. Dr. Farnsworth will make a public statement, "The basic problem with these young men seems to be that they feel inferior. They are not inferior, of course, simply dislocated." The Admissions Board will make an immediate counter statement, "There is a definite place in Harvard College for these young men. Of course, we prefer to keep them out of Eliot House...
...LeMay, longtime SAC commander and now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, disclosed that a "majority" of the Strategic Air Command's aircraft were grounded for lack of fuel during the last several weeks of fiscal 1957 (ending June 30). Jolting as it was, LeMay's statement checked out. For five weeks SAC had just enough gas to get off the ground in case of actual attack, almost none to spare for training or readiness flights, although it is basic SAC policy to keep part of its bombers in the air at all times in order...
...Socialist or quasi-Socialist Premiers among the 14 present in Paris, promptly met that expectation. Said Gerhardsen: "We have no plans in Norway to let atomic stockpiles be established on Norwegian territory, or to construct launching sites for intermediate range ballistic missiles." What was not expected was his next statement. Seizing on the fact that the U.S. does not yet have any operational IRBMs to give NATO. Gerhardsen declared: "It is our view that the right course could be to postpone the decision. The time which will in any case elapse before any existing [missile] plans can be implemented could...
...this juncture, Khrushchev went to the rostrum and ratified what his foreign minister had said ("I fully agree"). Conceding that the NATO communique statement that the West will never attack Russia unless attacked itself "is not badly put," he added a suggestion of his own: a summit meeting between the U.S. and Russia alone...