Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed a steady rise in the atmosphere's radioactivity level. At midweek a brisk high-altitude wind, blowing from Nevada, brought radioactivity from a test shot above normal safety levels, sent Health Officer Uhl round to see Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson phoned the AEC in Washington, finally got through to AECommissioner Willard Libby, was assured that 1) the fallout level was not dangerous at all; 2) the Nevada test series was almost complete...
Under Old Soldier George Washington's portrait and Old Soldier Napoleon Bonaparte's framed maxims ("There Is No Strength Without Justice"), a military court convened last week at the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood, Md. to judge ten young privates who never wanted to be old soldiers at all. The ten: drafted college-trained scientists stationed at the center to carry on Army chemical research. The charge: bringing discredit to the Army with bawdy songs and raucous conduct during an off-post beer party...
Cleveland Industrialist (steel, rubber, paint) Cyrus Eaton called his talk "A Capitalist Looks at the Commissars" and his audience-a National Press Club luncheon in Washington-sat popeyed at what they heard. On his recent trip to Russia, Eaton was so impressed with Soviet good will and "dedication to work," so eager to believe in a Khrushchev who had offered him palmolive-branch assurances ("He wants to make peace with us. He wants to get along . . ."), that he pooh-poohed the Hungarian suppression as not the Russians' fault at all and added that "the Hungarian issue is a phony...
Three years ago the tycoon-hating Washington Post and Times Herald, enraged by the way Washington's transit company board chairman. Financier Louis E. Wolfson, was running the buses and streetcars, said so in three editorials. Sample: "His tactics, indeed the whole Wolfson operation of a once-sound company, have been a hark-back to the robber baron days of the last century." Financier Wolfson promptly sued for $30 million. The Post was unabashed: "We shall continue to exercise our full right to criticize...
...technique is all her own. Pert and comely, she sits quietly in meetings and hearing rooms, watching gestures, listening to sounds, painting mental pictures. She writes swiftly and well, turns out some of the most perceptive, pungent copy in Washington, D.C. Says U.P.I. Bureau Chief Lyle Wilson of the Washington Star's Mary McGrory: "Mary is the tops-the best I've ever seen. Her stuff stands up next day; it has survival value...