Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1960s with Strategic Air Command bombers and a slender intercontinental missile program, Air Force missilemen turned up in Washington last week with a warning and a plan. The warning: reliance on plane-borne SAC will not surely give the U.S. the deterrent it needs. The plan: step up production of the well-tested Atlas missile. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Atlas...
Marine General Randolph Pate, 61, completes his commandant's tour at year's end, will probably step aside. Among the three or four three-star generals in line for the post: Nate Twining's Annapolis-educated brother Merrill, 56, brilliant tactician, now Commandant of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico...
...move, said Fidel Castro, "distressed'' him, but it was "necessary for the good of the revolution." It put him only a step away from the presidency, now held by his hand-picked choice, Manuel Urrutia. There were signs that Castro, who is 32, might move up to Urrutia's job before too long. Under the Cuban constitution, the President cannot be younger than 35. Last week news got out that the constitution had been quietly changed by a mere vote of the Cabinet a fortnight ago-and the new minimum fixed at 30. In the premiership, Castro...
...Auto output increased to 115,770 cars, up 1,488 from the week before, and 14% ahead of last year. Chrysler, which was hard hit by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. strike, expects to step up production with glass from other sources. If the strike is settled this week, as expected, Chrysler plans to go back into full production almost immediately...
Francis Keppel, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, derided the notion that such a step would ever lead to government administration of tests. "The Federal Government will have more and more interest in education," maintained Keppel...