Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reivers* William Faulkner plays a mellowed Prospero and proves an engaging fellow. Like an old man gossiping on the back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal. Above all, Faulkner carries on the flagrant, 30-year love affair he has had with Yoknapatawpha County and its ornery, enduring and, until now, doom-ridden people...
...commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss's side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and finally AEC Commissioner Gordon Dean. On Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman ordered the H-bomb...
...criticism included a rejection of Teller's refusal to consider negotiated steps toward arms reduction. The scientists stated that the world is now ready for disarmament and maintained that immediate disarmament (and therefore negotiation) was a necessity...
...Teller's stress on missile defense systems, the possibility of limited nuclear war, and the necessity of a massive bomb shelter system were also rejected by the authors of the article...
...refuting Teller, the scientists presented a "feasible arms-control agreement" calling for limited arms reduction and elimination of further arms production. They regarded Teller's own plan for the present nuclear situation as "not an illusion but also a tragic dissipation of all hope...