Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army Chief of Staff General Maxwell Taylor staked Army's claim to the next but faraway great step in weaponry, the defensive missile system to stop the attacking missile. He plugged hard for an Army project called Nike Zeus-"which already partially exists in the form of research-and-development components"-as the basis for an anti-missile missile program, thus by inference downgrading the rival Air Force Wizard anti-missile project (as well as an Air Force Pentagon-corridor campaign to put the Army out of the defensive antiaircraft missile business altogether...
...expenditures as his wife's brassières and $2,564.65 for 24 My Fair Lady theater parties. The union must also fire President Anthony Valente, whose home also was financed with union money. Last week, with Klenert's resignation already in, the textile workers moved another step toward Meany's blessing. Emerging from a U.T.W.A. executive board conference in Washington. President Valente softly but angrily announced that he had resigned...
...Vermonters occasionally wondered whether their cherished Green Mountains might not disappear beneath a new deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about a new flood...
...Monday morning, until the freeze sets in, nurses at the windows of Helsinki's handsome, modern Children's Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive with a 10- or 15-lb. pike slung over his shoulder. The fisherman is Dr. Arvo Ylppo, passing from his weekend avocation to his lifelong vocation. Ylppo, the only man in Finland to bear the proud title of archiater (chief physician, an honorific designation dating from ancient Greece), is the world's pioneering authority on premature babies...
...months, Indonesia's boldest and best-known newspaper editor, Indonesia Raya's Mochtar Lubis, 35, has been under house arrest for speaking up against President Sukarno's drift toward Communism. Last week Sukarno's government took another step toward its goal of "guided democracy." On pain of suspension, other Djakarta newspapers and magazines were warned not even to mention Editor Lubis' name...