Word: accept
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Last February the U.S. offered a new plan that went about as far as the nation could go under President Eisenhower's long-standing declaration that the U.S. would accept only a ban that could be checked. The new U.S. plan would outlaw all nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in the sea, in space-and police the ban with a global network of long-range seismographs, plus international teams of inspectors to probe any suspicious earth tremors on the spot. But the U.S. would exempt all underground tests of less than 19 kilotons (about one Hiroshima bomb), because they...
...Administration's "Committee of Principals": Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Allen Dulles, Air Secretary James Douglas (sitting in for Defense Secretary Thomas Gates Jr., who was in Europe for a NATO meeting), and Presidential Science Adviser George Kistiakowsky. None was willing to accept all the Soviet points. Otherwise, the group was split. Herter and Kistiakowsky were for negotiating further on inspection guarantees, but talked of making some concessions to reach an agreement. AEC Chairman McCone called for a prompt resumption of testing until enforceable controls were assured. The Pentagon strongly seconds...
...regular Look salary by a group of Stevenson fans): to author a series of speeches on U.S. high policy, which Adlai Stevenson will deliver mostly to university audiences. With such rhetoric on record, Stevenson will be well prepared, if more active Democratic candidates kill off one another, to accept the party call for the third consecutive time...
...Corp., a New Jersey drug firm which Revlon had bought with the idea of a merger, later dropped. But Charlie's legal counsel had advised him, he said, that a straight-value switch might hint of favoritism, open Revlon to stockholder protests of waste and mismanagement. Would Martin accept the equivalent value in Schering stock at $3 a share less than the market value of his Revlon stock...
...with adolescent patriotism, he saw action in World War I before he was 16, was decorated with the Iron Cross, First Class, and wore a noncom's stripes when he was 17. A restless postwar rebel, he joined the Freikorps, a kind of guerrilla band that refused to accept the peace of Versailles. He was an accessory in a political murder, served six years in prison, during which ''I nearly went raving...