Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radicals." A top Science Advisory Committee member, declining to be named, insisted in an interview that the President's stop-the-tests decision was wise "on balance"-and then began blasting away with both barrels at those who disagree. Said he: "These men who don't want a test moratorium are like a kid you are trying to put to bed. First he wants a drink of water and then he wants to go to the bathroom, but what he really wants...
...Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does not live in fear...
...Call the Bluff." So hardened by the heat of controversy are the opposing scientific views on test suspension that reconciliation or compromise seem almost out of the question. But from the political world last week came a suggestion that demonstrated the possibility of a middle ground. Recently returned from the Geneva talks (TIME, Nov. 24), Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, a member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, urged his ideas on President Eisenhower. Gore's key point: the U.S. could test nuclear weapons underground, underwater or in outer space without danger of fallout...
...ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting a way out of an otherwise bitter, abrasive impasse on the question of test suspension...
...month-old Iven C. Kincheloe III] for appointment as a cadet in the U.S.A.F. Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo. His rich inheritance stems from a father whose superb technical skill and selfless dedication to country were demonstrated in outstanding fashion in his perilous duties as an experimental flight test pilot...