Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking up from a week of made-in-Moscow headlines, the U.S., across lunch counters, through stern editorials and in Washington debate, stirred with a sober realization that the nation faces a possibility of war over Berlin. "The countdown has begun," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned...
...WASHINGTON, March 6--The four men who lead Congress met for 90 minutes with President Eisenhower today and promptly proclaimed bipartisan backing of his firm stand against Red threats to Berlin...
...WASHINGTON, March 6--The radio aboard America's sun satellite faded out today, and a space agency spokesman said "Pioneer IV is gone forever...
...station's attempt, however, to move to channel 289 involved it in a conflict with WKOX of Framingham, seeking an adjoining channel, and forced WHRB into prolonged hearings before the Communications Commission in Washington. As a result the station decided in December to apply for channel 237 instead. Approval was granted by the FCC February 5 subject to the protest period...
...WASHINGTON, March 4--America's Pioneer IV shot past the moon late today and headed for a solar orbit scientists say will last as long as the universe does...