Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Nikita Khrushchev put a slow fuse on his threat to turn Berlin over to the East German authorities, he did not act capriciously. In both preceding crises of 1958, the United States reacted more impetuously than the Soviets had calculated; the six-month period of grace on the Berlin issue was designed to provide time enough so that doubt and dissension could germinate among the Western allies...
...August 9, 1955, President Eisenhower signed into law a Reserve Rorces Act (RFA-55) that was to "build and maintain powerful civilian reserves immediately capable of effective military service in an emergency." One of the Act's provisions for building up these "powerful" reserves was through the direct enlistment of men for six months active duty followed by longer periods in the Ready Reserve. This six-month soldier is differentiated from draftee and regular Army personnel by the abbreviation, "RFA," after the law that spawned...
...Army, however, has never been more outwardly enthusiastic about any new program. "Everyone connected with the program agrees on its success," writes Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Bergquist, commanding general of Fort Dix. RFA should stand, not for Reserve Forces Act, says Maj. Gen. P. D. Ginder, assistant chief of staff for reserve components, but for "Ready For America...
Breathless, France awaited the next act of the first major scandal to be tried in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic...
...week found his name linked with what one snickering newspaper called "doves of sin." It happened through CBS radio's lively tabloid report on "The Business of Sex" (TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when the ruckus started...