Word: shields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cargo, Savannah has no hopes of turning a profit, will fulfill its mission if it can lead the way to more efficient models and prove the safety and reliability of seagoing nuclear power. The power plant and 690 lbs. of enriched uranium-to be loaded next spring-will be shielded by a 33-in.-thick ring of water, a steel cylinder, then a 2,000-ton composite shield, and finally by a 24-in. redwood and steel collision mat. Dotted around the ship will be twelve monitors to gauge radiation on passengers and crew (probably no more than normal atmospheric...
...confirmation, ranking at least with Cabinet members. One would specialize in foreign affairs, the other in domestic affairs. In helping the President with day-to-day affairs, they would be more important than the Vice President, who is constitutionally required only to preside over the Senate. Where assistants now shield Ike through persuasion or toughness, the. new assistants-at least in theory-would do it by having authority to take over some of his duties...
...drizzly day at Longchamp racetrack, a resplendent Aly Khan and his handsome son Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, were on hand to watch the running of the Grand Prix de Paris. Like any solicitous father, Aly unfurled his big topcoat to shield Karim from the rain. It was one of their few public appearances together since Karim became Aly's own spiritual ruler, helped dispel rumors that they have not hit it off well lately...
Much tidying up yet remains. To this day, parts of Canada still fly the British Union Jack, although the government is trying during the pageantry of the Queen's visit to spread the use of the Red Ensign, with its hard-to-discern Canadian shield. Canadians are unable to decide on a national anthem, and sing either God Save the Queen or O Canada...
...Canada about to bow out as a full partner in manning NATO's European shield? Until a few months ago, any such notion was inconceivable. Yet in the letdown after Ottawa's cancellation of the all-Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the occasion to write Canada off as a military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed...