Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interim report was notably shy on hard specifics (e.g., what kind of Pentagon reorganization?), but Johnson expects to remedy this shortcoming in a final recommendation to Congress a month hence. The report was nonetheless an effective reminder that the committee had done the nation a distinct service by providing a well-run forum for debating and exposing defense weaknesses at a critical time...
...night, Kraus tracked three pieces-one of them may have been the nose cone, but the other two were certainly fragments of the satellite itself. Between Jan. 2 and 5, two of the pieces broke into smaller bits and spiraled closer to earth. On Jan. 6 he distinguished eight distinct fragments, all of them still orbiting, but at slightly different speeds. Toward the end, it took as much as 30 minutes for the procession to cross Ohio. Dr. Kraus thinks that the Sputnik's thin metal skin disintegrated first, allowing its contents (batteries, instruments, radio apparatus, etc.) to come...
...thermonuclear bombs. U.S. Navy doctrine holds that the mobility of aircraft carriers gives them an advantage over land air bases. Result: billions are committed to both systems, even though Navy bombers and Air Force bombers are both ways of waging similar sorts of strategic nuclear war-each requiring distinct and gigantic support systems. So far, the J.C.S. have been unable to come to any kind of decision to prevent such overlapping effort...
...Williams, Saul L. Sanders and Richard R.P. Warner (now back in civilian practice) rule out various diseases that exhibit some but not all of the same symptoms-notably infectious mononucleosis and infectious hepatitis. (Also eliminated is a bacterial disease, leptospirosis.) Though similarly baffling, the mysterious complaint is medically distinct from the strange epidemics of "Iceland disease" that have swept some London hospitals and Punta Gorda, Fla. (TIME...
Responsibility. The Gannett papers, nonetheless, share distinct family traits that go beyond sound management or geographical proximity. (Except for Illinois' Danville Commercial-News, New Jersey's Plainfield Courier-News and the Hartford Times, all are published in New York cities and small towns.) Conservative in news judgment as in politics, they have little use for exposes, play down stories of sex and crime. "A newspaper, to suit me," said Gannett, "must be one that I would be willing to have my mother, my own sister or daughter read." Many readers, particularly in the 15 cities where Gannett...