Fifties (150 page)

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Authors: David Halberstam

Teller, K. T.,
615
Teller, Mici,
89
,
353
Texaco Star Theatre
,
185
“That’s When Your Heartaches Begin,”
457
Theory of Games
(von Neumann),
31
There Will Be No Time: The Revolution in Strategy
(Borden),
331-32
Thomas, J. Parnell,
14
,
27-28
Thomas, Rufus,
458
Thompson, Howard,
483
Thompson, Llewellyn,
722
Thorndyke, Sybil,
564
Throckmorton, John,
104
Thurber, James,
183
,
654
Tic Tac Dough
,
646
Tight White Collar, The
(Metalious),
585
Till, Emmett,
430-40
,
441
,
452
,
560
,
676
Time
,
13
,
21
,
30
,
50
,
185
,
191
,
193
,
330
,
398
,
456
,
573
,
655
Times
(London),
408
Today
,
657
,
688
Tolson, Clyde,
313
,
335-36
Toman, Ed,
158-59
,
162
Toriello (Guatemalan foreign minister),
379
,
385
Toth, Emily,
579-80
Town and the City, The
(Kerouac),
304
Toys “R” Us,
153
Trainer, Harry,
333
Treadmill to Oblivion
(Allen),
184
Trilling, Lionel,
298
,
654
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas,
376
,
716
Truman, Bess,
22
Truman, Harry S,
4
,
6
,
8
,
10
,
11
,
18-19
,
40
,
53
,
56
,
66
,
67
,
68-69
,
78-79
,
84
,
101
,
102
,
105
,
106
,
109
,
112
,
118
,
190
,
193
,
204
,
313
,
364
,
371
,
390
,
397
,
415
,
423
,
605
,
686
,
700
,
732
Acheson on,
23
assessment of,
20-24
background of,
22
demobilization and,
28
Guatemala coup and,
378
H-bomb decision of,
36
,
42
,
44
,
45-46
J. Edgar Hoover and,
339-40
MacArthur fired by,
57
,
113-14
,
115
,
204
MacArthur’s meeting with,
85-86
,
105
national emergency declared by,
110
1952 election and,
210
,
218
,
221-22
,
223
Oppenheimer’s meeting with,
35
Soviet A-bomb and,
25-26
,
27
Supreme Court appointees of,
411-12
on Taft,
205
Truman, Margaret,
19
,
69
Truman Doctrine,
23
Tuck, James,
31
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail,
614
Turner, Fred,
163
,
166
Turner, Ike,
469
,
691
“Tutti Frutti,”
471
Twenty-One
,
647-50
,
654
,
656
,
657
,
664
Twining, Nathan,
404
“Two Are an Island” (Friedan),
593
Two-Bit Culture
(Davis),
59
,
579
Tydings, Millard,
56
Tyler, William,
503
Ubico Castaneda, Jorge,
374
,
376-77
Ulam, Stanislaw,
41
,
90
,
92
,
95
,
97
,
98
,
331
unions,
117-18
,
138
United Auto Workers (UAW),
119
United Fruit Company,
374
,
376-78
,
379
,
381
,
712
,
713
,
714
,
716
United Mine Workers,
117
United Motors Corporation,
121
United Nations,
112
,
219
,
221
,
701
,
724
United Press,
51
,
55
,
717
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer),
96
Universal Military Training (UMT),
28
,
191
Urey, Harold,
341
U-2 aircraft,
616-21
,
699
,
703
Soviet downing of,
704-11
Van Cleve, Edith,
269
Vandenberg, Arthur,
26
Vandenberg, Hoyt,
109
,
112
Van Doren, Charles,
650-65
Van Doren, Geraldine,
664
Van Doren, Mamie,
492
,
564
Van Doren, Mark,
651
,
652
,
653
,
654
,
662
,
663
Van Dusen, Henry Pitney,
278
,
279
,
280
Van Fleet, Jo,
482
Vannikov, Boris,
47
Van Susteren, Urban,
252
Variety
,
186
Veblen, Oswald,
94
Venet, Nik,
507
Vengeance is Mine
(Spillane),
60
Vietminh,
397
,
398-403
,
408
,
409
,
718
Vietnam,
53
,
73
,
74
,
718
,
723
partition of,
408
Vineberg, Steven,
479
Vinson, Fred,
222
,
411-12
,
415
Vivas, Eliseo,
530
Volkswagen Beetle,
636-39
,
641
Volpe, Joseph,
39
,
343
Voluntary Parenthood
(Loth),
601
von Braun, Magnus,
607
von Braun, Wernher,
351
,
606-12
,
621-22
,
626
,
627
Vo Nguyen Giap,
398
,
400
,
402
,
409
von Neumann, John,
31
,
93
,
98
,
331
,
349
background of,
94-95
computer designed by,
96-97
personality of,
95
politics of,
95-96
Voorhis, Jerry,
212-13
,
311
,
319
,
324
Wakefield, Dan,
531
,
532
Wakeman, Frederic,
500-501
Wald, Jerry,
585
Walker, George,
127
Walker, Walter,
75-76
,
103-4
,
110
Wallace, George,
562
,
689
Wallace, Henry,
27
,
56
Wallace, Mike,
584
,
604
Wallis, Hal,
477
Wall Street Journal
,
341
Walters, Vernon,
363
Ward, T. J.,
545
Warner, Jack,
256
Warren, Earl,
115
,
208
,
211-12
,
213
,
312
,
415-22
background of,
415-17
Brown
decision and,
422
political career of,
416-18
of racism,
420-21
Washington Post
,
56
,
190
,
205
,
250
,
680
,
699
,
707
Watergate scandal,
317
,
359
,
372
,
658
Watson, Tom, Jr.,
93
,
96
,
97
Watson, Tom, Sr.,
96
Wayne, John,
212
Wedemeyer, Albert,
68
Weismuller, Tony,
168-69
Weisner, Jerome,
92
Weisskopf, Victor,
32
,
33
,
37
,
89
,
90
,
330-31
,
344
,
348
Welker, Herman R.,
57
Wells, Herman,
276-78
Werblin, Sonny,
659
West, Jessamyn,
315
,
321-22
West, Rebecca,
372-73
Westfeldt, Wallace,
680
Westinghouse,
496
,
498-99
Weybright, Victor,
60
,
61
Weyl, Hermann,
95
“What Every Girl Should Know” (Sanger),
284
“What I Found in the Underworld” (Kefauver),
193
What’s My Line?
,
193
Wheeler, John,
342
Wheeling Intelligencer
,
50
Wherry, Kenneth S.,
57
White, Bill,
8
White, William Allen,
7
White Citizens Council,
429
,
547
,
555
,
560
,
671
White Collar
(Mills),
485
,
531-33
Whitman, Ann,
328
,
729
Whitten, John,
433
,
440
Why Johnny Can’t Read—and What You Can Do About It
(Flesch),
625
Wieland, William,
715
Wilder, Billy,
563
,
564
,
567
Wilder, Thornton,
184
,
257
,
266
Wild One, The
,
268
Williams, Cornelius Coffin,
257-58
Williams, Edwina Dakin,
257-59
Williams, Hank,
558
Williams, Robert Chadwell,
41
,
46
Williams, Rose,
258
,
259
Williams, Ted,
695
Williams, Tennessee,
254-62
,
267
,
270-73
Williams, William Carlos,
307
Willkie, Wendell,
4
,
5-6
,
208
,
217
,
653

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