Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO conference got under way last week, the British and the French were talking up a plan that would require NATO's commanders to consult all 14 governments before answering a Soviet attack with atomic weapons. Such a plan would leave the West helpless during the first vital hours, while the Reds could be atom-bombing at will. John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval. In effect, it established that the statesmen have final authority, and generals were bound to consult them, but no cumbrous machinery of confining rules was laid down. After...
...developments, however, are the nature films, for with them he has opened up a new world of intense experiences and possibilities. In them, as in few films of recent years, there is the sense that the camera can take an onlooker into the interior of a vital event-indeed, into the pulse of life-process itself. Thus far, Disney seems afraid to trust the strength of his material: he primps it with cute comment and dabs at it with flashy, cosmetical touches of music. But no matter how hard he tries, he cannot quite make Mother Nature look like what...
...Moscow should decide some mid night to attack the U.S., 900 Soviet heavy bombers could be over North America by dawn. Some 300 Red planes, manned by elite crews and loaded with nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, would streak toward vital U.S. target areas. The others, carrying TNT and fire bombs, would serve to divert and confuse U.S. defenses...
With 8,000 flying hours, he ranks second in Air Force seniority (first: Chief of Staff Twining). A four-star flyer entrusted with one of the nation's most vital commands, he is unpublicized and virtually unknown. But in 36 years of service he has piled up vast all-round experience. He has been a pursuit pilot, a flight instructor, one of the early 6-17 pilots who worked out U.S. long-range bombing techniques. A top technician, he helped to develop retractable landing gear, variable pitch propellers, and a long line of U.S. combat planes. In World...
...important change has taken place in the attitude of America to world affairs. Recent statements by President Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles have spotlighted several vital issues. Many Americans have urged an aggressive policy towards Communist China. When China recently imprisoned thirteen Americans there were renewed calls that America should "go it alone"-to the extent of blockading China. But President Eisenhower has squashed these suggestions. He has made it plain that he will not consider steps that might lead to war and divide America from her allies. All America's efforts are now to be exerted to achieve peaceful...