Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While developing an arsenal of ballistic missiles for retaliatory or offensive power, the U.S. is also working on defense against Russian ICBMs. Until recently, scientists and military men generally agreed that a nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which a nation could do nothing to save its cities from destruction. Last week General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff, announced that the Air Force has developed a new radar system that could detect an oncoming ICBM as much as 3,000 miles away. Based on the ORDIR...
...mentioned even more strongly in 1960 if he can keep his hold on New Jersey. Candidate Forbes has a double goal: long-range, the Princeton graduate ('41) and publisher (Forbes business magazine) would like to be President too. But shortrange, his victory would go a long way toward offsetting recent losses of G.O.P. governorships in Maine, Kansas, Iowa and Pennsylvania and the resounding Republican setback in Wisconsin's Senate election...
...urgent radio message: "Being fired on by Orange surface raider. Inchcliffe Castle." With that alert from a famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time beating off the assaults of Britain-based Valiant jet bombers...
...Georgia Tech's underrated and inexperienced Engineers took a long step toward the Southeastern Conference championship by holding down Kentucky...
...European director," a one-man foreign staff charged with arranging cultural programs. As an assistant on the Continent, Murrow hired from the now-expired Universal Service a newsman named William L. Shirer. Soon the two switched from "cultural stuff" to report the Austrian Anschluss, and then, as Europe hurtled toward war, Murrow began hiring the core of what is still the best news staff of the networks. Among the "Murrow boys," as CBS calls them: Eric Sevareid, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood. Richard Hottelot, David Schoenbrun and Bill Downs...