Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth, but located its roots in a free, incentive economy that made for greater liberty. They acknowledged the need for new defenses to meet new threats and abandoned any notion that budget limitations should control security-but found the basis for real security in a will to win the cold war. They rejected in a chorus of "No!" heard round the world the suggestion that the U.S. was second best. And President Eisenhower's fighting defense of his policies put an end to the post-summit period of above-the-battle presidential calm that had lent a faint color...
LONDON and Paris newspaper readers have been startled in recent weeks by two well-circulated pictures that seemed to symbolize the terrors of the cold war. Hanging from the neck of a dapper U.S.A.F. major was a set of keys. Next to him was a picture of the lock they fit on the control board of a Thor missile emplacement. The starkly simple marking on the switch: War and Peace...
...bold gamble that committed $3.5 billions of the national defense budget before a single shot was fired. It was the first installment on the Polaris fleet that will run up a bill as large as the entire budget for the Strategic Air Command. But it was a cold war bargain. "It is not nearly so expensive," says Red Raborn proudly, "as a weapon that would not be pre-eminent in war. The second-best weapon is the one that costs too much." Last week there were few to argue that Polaris was second best...
...meeting of the Security Council; instead, using his authority under the charter's Article 99 for the first time, he called the Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister African nations." But to provide the "element of universality essential to any U.N. operation," he suggested that neutrals and other nations not involved in the cold war should take part. For transport and food...
...Western Hemisphere branch of the cold war, which pits the Communist world and Cuba against the U.S. and the rest of Latin America, last week's skirmishes were won by the U.S. and its friends...