Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S Jan. 18 issue quoted my reference to the steel strike and its settlement as a "national catastrophe" without amplification. That one phrase alone might lead the reader to believe that the "catastrophe" meant was the economic damage done to the economy...
Well aware that France was about to explode an atomic bomb, the U.S. proposed a treaty that it believed could lead to quickest practical agreement and serve until East and West could arrive at 100% control. Specifically, the U.S. proposed to end "forthwith under assured controls" 1) all nuclear weapons tests in the earth's atmosphere; 2) all tests in the oceans; 3) all nuclear tests in those regions of space where effective controls are currently possible; and 4) all controllable nuclear weapons tests beneath the surface of the earth. To get around disagreements on how to measure underground...
...Lead & the Need. In Washington last week there was growing concern that the Geneva talks would drag on and on to no conclusion. During the past 15 months, the U.S. has halted all nuclear tests. Yet the Communists may well be secretly testing, while the U.S. sits patiently at the conference table. The U.S. still has a probable lead in nuclear weapons technology, but the nation's nuclear arsenal can stand plenty of improvement, particularly in the area of cleaner bombs and small tactical weapons. Important programs are needed in the field of miniaturization to develop warheads...
...both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted somebody in those tanks who could talk fighter pilot lingo." Quesada chalked up 90 combat missions before war's end, went home with the Distinguished Service Medal, Air Medal with two Silver Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying...
...sultry Actress France Nuyen, 20, title-roler in Broadway's long-running The World of Suzie Wong, suffering in London from general jitters and a throat infection that forced her to abandon the lead in the movie version of Suzie; Jack-of-All-Arts Noel Coward, 59, abed with phlebitis (inflammation of veins) in Les Avants, Switzerland; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, showing "gradual improvement" in a Manhattan hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval...