Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jets, first reported at the Moscow air show last May, can double the speed and multiply the menace of any Soviet air strike. Observers, who saw the huge T-37 flying over Moscow at 200 ft., hoped for a time that the planes were prototypes displayed as bluff. But in June a flight of 60 T-395 flew over Moscow in perfect formation...
...Siberia (already dotted with missile launching sites). But danger is no cause for despair. Top U.S. strategists believe that the Soviet Union may never make a successful attack-or any kind of an attack-so long as the U.S. keeps up its guard and, above all, its ability to strike back. A strong, alert air defense, by its very existence, can help to preserve both the peace...
...Double Six. Hewitt's crime, in the eyes of his fellow workers, was his failure last December to join the one-day walkout of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at the Staveley works in Derbyshire. He had not joined the strike because his own union, the General and Municipal Workers, said not to. Despite the explanation, Ed Boyce, the A.E.U. shop steward, ruled: "The men in this shop .are not going to speak to you for six months." Hewitt might have moved on to some other shop, because he was still in good standing with his own union...
...thousands of Brazilians who found government hospitals and free-care clinics in Rio closed to them last week. Some 600 government doctors were on strike. The doctors' complaint: Brazil's President Joao Cafe Filho, determined to hold down government spending and stop runaway inflation, had vetoed a bill that would have upped minimum salaries of all government employees holding university degrees (TIME...
With the outraged public on the government's side. Cafe Filho declared the doctors' strike illegal, banned picketing, sent military doctors to work in civilian hospitals, fired the 210 department heads among the strikers. Eight hospital-picketing doctors, including the president of the Brazilian Medical Association, were jailed. In a radio speech. Cafe Filho called upon the strikers to "put an end to this sad. spectacle before the world...