Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicomedy gifts are under smothering wraps, and the only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten to wake up the show, I Was a Shoo-in, a hilariously mimed saga of how she missed being Miss America. Comic Bean, a twitchy bundle of broken watchsprings, has the other: he begs her to seduce him by putting on some clothes...
...Baruch Proposal, the American scheme for internationalizing all nuclear armaments. In Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959) he remarks, "I thought, at the time, that it would be worth while to bring pressure to bear upon Russia and even, if necessary, to go so far as to threaten war on the sole issue of the internationalizing of atomic weapons. My aim, then as now, was to prevent a war in which both sides possessed the power of producing world-wide disaster. Western statesmen, however, confident of the supposed technical superiority of the West, believed that there was no danger...
...Gallup Poll finds that Eisenhower and Kennedy are both so well liked that it would threaten the American people to have to choose between them in '64. "The loser's feelings would get hurt, and that's not nice," an Iowan couple is quoted as saying. Reading the results of the poll, Eisenhower promises not to run again for the presidency. "I can't stand to see a grown public cry," he explains. The public and Kennedy calls Eisenhower "a great President, to whom I bear a striking resemblance." Henry Luce cables agreement, and Kennedy withdraws his law suit. "Henry...
...balance-of-payments troubles are partly a condition of the cold war. The U.S. spends some $5 billion a year on foreign aid and for the support of its own and allied armies overseas. To overcome a payments gap so large as to threaten international confidence in the value of the dollar, U.S. traders must sell far more than they buy abroad...
...LOCAL FALLOUT. This is mostly the coarse, comparatively heavy material blasted out of the bomb crater. Although extremely dangerous, it spreads only a few hundred miles from the explosion. It does not get into the long-term circulation of the atmosphere, and it does not threaten the earth as a whole...