Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...platform, no matter how handsome the driver. But a man who is already endowed with the negative assets and the positive cause of defense, and who is already the professionals' second choice, could reasonably see a chance to wind up in the driver's seat by the time the Democratic Convention has ended...
...most accomplished collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile chum, Wisconsin's Kennedy-leaning Senator William Proxmire. Invading Milwaukee for a speech, Morse lashed out at the "gutless wonders" and "phony liberals" who had voted for "the Kennedy-Landrum-Grifnn labor reform bill" (TIME, Sept. 14). Proxmire hit back: Morse's attack "indicates an unbalanced, arrogant extremism and speaks eloquently for the reform bill we passed." If Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller dropped by the White House...
...School before joining the Foreign Service after World War I. As he rose through the corps, putting out diplomatic fires from North Africa to Berlin, from Trieste to Panmunjom, Suez, Tunis and Lebanon (TIME cover, Aug. 25, 1958), 3,400 Foreign Service pros came to look upon him as "Mr. Foreign Service." His trademark was an amiable smile overlaying a dependable core of toughness. Said he to a trouble-minded Lebanese rebel leader at the height of the Lebanon crisis in August 1958: "You know, we have the power to destroy your positions in a matter of seconds. We haven...
...Geneva (resumed last week), the U.S. has made major concessions without getting any workable inspection agreement. Moreover, the U.S., in recalculating the results of its underground shot in October 1958, has discovered that underground explosions below 20 kilotons (about Hiroshima size) cannot accurately be detected by known seismographic instruments (TIME, Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the U.S. has had to hold up development of "clean" (low-fallout) bombs and smaller thermonuclear weapons. Sample result: a delay in the smaller warhead for the second-generation Minuteman intercontinental missile...
Would India fight to protect its northern borders? For the first time, the word "war" was on many lips. Some Indian editors were urging a military defense pact with Pakistan, and there were even suggestions that it was time to accept help from other non-Communist countries. On the northern borders, all frontier posts were transferred from the police to the Indian army, now commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who won the world's admiration in the days of the Korean armistice, when, despite Nehru's displeasure, he scrupulously directed the screening of captured Chinese...