Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to photograph each other's territory from the air. The U.S. is ready to accept a Russian plan to station disarmament inspectors of each country at harbors, rail junctions and airfields of the other country; but the U.S. will also insist that the inspectors visit atomic-weapon plants...
...Administration, the department's No. 3 job. He was personally popular on the Hill when the State Department was not. He was good at getting appropriations, but it was also his casual candor in referring to the dismissal of 91 homosexuals that gave Joe McCarthy so valuable a weapon for attacking the department...
...appropriate setting for Scientist Libby. As a nuclear scientist on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, he is the man who unwrapped the stark facts about nuclear war. A "thermonuclear weapon" of the type that was exploded by the U.S. in the Pacific last year, said Scientist Libby in his famous "fallout speech" last June, can sprinkle death-dealing radioactive dust over an area of 100,000 square miles. "An area so large," he added dryly, ";that evacuation may be a bit impractical." As the AEC's "vice president in charge of atoms for peace," Libby is the American responsible...
...battle for newspaper circulation in Chicago, Marshall Field Jr. last week primed a new weapon for his tabloid Sun-Times: Midwest, a 48- to 56-page Sunday rotogravure magazine, to be out next month. Not only does Field want to bring back the 25,000 readers the Sunday Sun-Times lost (present circulation: 587,630) when it boosted the price from 10? to 15?; he hopes to bring in another 25,000 new readers. To run Midwest, Field brought in Veteran Editor Jonathan Kilbourn, 39, who will develop a Sunday magazine different from Parade, which the Sun-Times uses...
...Editor Mazzella lives like a moving target. He has no permanent address, changes his residence every few days. "I'm a prisoner," he shrugs. "Either I stay in the office or in my room." Though his life is in constant danger, he refuses to carry a weapon. Yet Editor Mazzella entertains no thought of giving up his crusade. In fact, he hopes he may DC winning it. New Resident General Gilbert Grandval (TIME, Aug. 1) is already beginning to give Moroccans a start toward the moderate rule that Maroc-Presse has been demanding all along...