Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scientist Hermann Oberth, who had worked on the U.S. missile program: "The Russian rockets remind me of simple alarm clocks-you can throw them on the wall and they'll keep on ticking. American missiles are like expensive ladies' wrist watches that look nice but tend to stop frequently." An old missile hand at Cape Canaveral turned to a football figure. The Russians, said he, are now leading in moon shots by 7 to 6-they have converted after the touchdown. He did not need to add that, operationally speaking, missilery is perhaps the one game where peace...
Technically, Mikoyan and his son Sergo, 29, were guests of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov-not the U.S.-and "Smiling Mike" Menshikov shepherded them through customs, bundled them into a Cadillac at the head of a procession of five embassy cars. The procession skipped the announced stop at the Russian U.N. delegation headquarters in Manhattan so as to avoid demonstrations by New York's Red-hating refugees, sped across New York City and on down the New Jersey Turnpike, escorted by cops and two cars full of U.S. newsmen...
...single 1957 test, President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee estimated that underground atomic blasts down to five kilotons could be fully detected by seismic inspection stations. On the basis of the five-kiloton report, the U.S. settled down with the Russians at Geneva to try to negotiate a stop-tests agreement with an inspection and detection system-but fully aware that the chances of detection were slim below the five-kiloton underground threshold...
...kilotons-about the size of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima bombs. Science Advisory Committee Chairman James Rhyne Killian Jr. broke the news to President Eisenhower before Christmas, and the U.S. expects to break it to the Russians at Geneva this week. Next soul-searching question: Should the U.S. trust to any stop-test agreement where the chances of deception are so great as to be a major risk to survival...
Seeing nary an appeaser in sight, Jimmy Hoffa quickly backtracked, claimed that Feinstein's plan was a surprise to him. His boys would not try to stop police deliveries, intended to picket "for advertising purposes only." Furthermore, the Teamsters would welcome police membership, only "if they request...