Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passage: "What the world would best remember in 1945 was the deadly mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future. In their giant shadows, 45,000 ft. tall, all men were pygmies." The cover showed a small face of Harry Truman, a man caught and dwarfed by the might of the new Atomic...
Died. Admiral (ret.) John Dale Price, 65, rawboned, good-natured naval aviator, Truman-era Vice Chief of Naval Operations, credited with making the first night landing on an aircraft carrier (in the mid-'20s); after long illness; in San Diego Naval Hospital...
Ability to Destroy. The line's most scholarly and most influential advocate is George Frost Kennan, 53, longtime student of the Soviet Union, top Truman State Department policy planner, author of the postwar containment policy, onetime Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952), and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University...
...point your finger in a dozen directions, toward both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, and find plenty of people who should have acted smarter on our missile programs...
...when other Gannett papers (nearly all in solid Republican territory) supported Tom Dewey for President, Gannett's Independent Democratic Hartford (Conn.) Times (circ. 120,182) backed Truman; in 1952, when Gannett backed Taft, the Times and most other papers in the group boomed Eisenhower. His Independent Republican Binghamton (N.Y.) Press (circ. 64,562), one of the best small-city newspapers in the U.S., has lately made a habit of supporting Democrats for mayor. During a state election campaign in which several of his papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called...