Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a patient sitting in a doctor's anteroom while the specialists discuss his case, the U.S. public last week sat outside while the President, his military, scientific and diplomatic advisers debated whether to construct the hydrogen bomb, the most powerful explosive weapon the world has yet dreamed...
...least one man in the high councils argued against prompt action on the new weapon. David Lilienthal, whose views are highly respected by Harry Truman, had stayed beyond his appointed date of resignation as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission primarily to debate the subject, and last week was even at loggerheads with at least one of his own fellow commissioners. The peace posture of the U.S. would sag shamefully before the world, he argued, if the U.S. started the H-bomb without first making a new and genuine attempt in the U.N. to get international control of atomic energy...
...Last week, in a letter to four congressional leaders, Secretary of State Dean Acheson signaled for a change of mind-but not, he was quick to add, a change of heart. The U.S. was ready to vote in the U.N. for restoration of normal relationships with the Franco government (provided someone else would introduce a resolution). This, he added, did not mean approval of Franco. "It is difficult to envisage Spain as a full member of the free Western community without substantial advances in such directions as increased civil liberties, and as religious freedom and the freedom to exercise...
...president of New Mexico told a reporter earlier this week that Valpey hadn't even put in an application for the new job. This didn't rule out Valpey, and the new coach will be announced in a few days...
...remembered. He had taken her out only a week and a half ago. It seemed centuries. Since then Vag had reviewed the entire Middle Ages, ten plays of Shakespeare, and the whole structure of human personality...