Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astounded, or something, to read in TIME [April 2] that after the New York legislature passed a bill making parents financially responsible up to $250 for malicious property damage inflicted by their offspring, Governor Averell Harriman had vetoed the bill because it would "give to troublesome delinquents a weapon against their parents which they would not hesitate to use." Oh well, why should I or anybody be astounded about the people in New York? Isn't it in New York where parents frequently say: "I wish my son Johnny would hurry up and get old enough...
...Mollet declared that Americans have bestowed their "fantastic" sums of financial aid so "haughtily" and with so much "preaching" that they have made themselves "detested" round the world. The U.S., he said, is overemphasizing the military side of its policy, and so letting the Communists steal peace as a weapon of propaganda. From the time both the U.S. and Russia exploded the H-bomb, Mollet has "never believed" in the threat of a major Soviet attack, and in his opinion the position the U.S., Britain and France took at Geneva last summer, in putting German reunification ahead of disarmament...
...Post, were embarrassed by the Hiss case. The paper sprang to Hiss's defense, switched later when the evidence piled up against him. In the Post's more recent anti-Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham has had to restrain Herblock. In his Republican gallery (Ike as a perplexed boob; Dulles, a smug bumbler; Wilson, a predatory capitalist), the cartoonist began drawing Nixon as a heavily stubbled, bestial figure resembling the famous Herblock caricature of Joe McCarthy. Graham sternly ordered Herblock to shave the Vice President...
...imprint on community affairs is still apparent in some old established company towns. In Dow Chemical's Midland there are no hard liquor bars because "the Dow family wouldn't like it." In some company towns, particularly in the South, management frankly uses paternalism as a weapon against unionism...
Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet, two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack an atomic weapon. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...