Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel himself, ignored the invitation...
...time will come, thinks the CAA, when "explosive decompression" must be faced squarely. Jet airliners will have to fly at 40,000 ft. to economize fuel. The best way to make them decompression-proof, think some CAA men, would be to build cabins with no windows at all. A television eye in the plane's nose could show the passengers the country passing below-or movies could amuse them...
...Anything, Anywhere." What had happened in northeast Korea was proof that even in disaster and defeat the most significant element of U.S. power was mobility. In the amphibious campaigns of World War II the U.S. had developed with stunning success the techniques of transporting power by sea. Those techniques were by no means obsolete, but they were faced with a formidable new obstacle. Amphibious landings on the World War II model required vast supply dumps in ports or beachheads which would present an irresistible target to an enemy with the atomic bomb. Said General Omar Bradley, not long...
...CRIMSON regrets any confusion or consternation resulting from two proof mistakes in yesterday's article on requirements for enlistment in the armed forces. The first of the incorrect sentences appeared in the section on direct enlistment in the army and should have read, "Single men, 17 to 34, may onlist for three, four, five, or six years...
Membership in either the Harvard or Yale club at present depends upon sponsorship by two members of the club and proof that the applicant has been in attendance at the respective university for at least one academic year...