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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the services themselves, under McNamara's prodding, have actually become enthusiastic about saving money. The Navy, planning to buy 1,400 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, found it already had enough, scrapped the order at a saving of $45 million. The Marine Corps found it could adapt Army 120-mm. shells for use in its M103 tanks at a cost of 32#162 per shell instead of paying $95 each for new ones. The Army decided it could get along with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent than it had ordered. The Air Force learned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Down to the Dog Tags | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...witnessed nearly a century of American life expounded and systematized a legal philosophy which held that the law should adapt to changing conditions of the modern world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roscoe Pound Dies at 93, Revitalized Legal System | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...aggression in Western Europe receded, the alliance became a political assembly of independent-minded states rather than a military coalition huddling under the exclusive U.S. nuclear umbrella. What NATO has yet to prove is that it can rise to broader, subtler challenges. As Dean Rusk put it: "NATO must adapt itself to a situation in which the Communist threat takes more diversified and sophisticated forms, to a situation in which the cohesive element in this alliance must depend upon something more than an imminent military threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Literature | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Abrogating Laws. Last week British Judaism was split by its worst schism ever-over whether it should adapt to modern life or reject it for the sake of Israel's carefully nourished beliefs. Cause of the schism is the modern-minded theological outlook of Dr. Louis Jacobs, 43, a Biblical scholar who between 1954 and 1960 was rabbi of the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater, a traditional center of worship for many Anglo-Jewish families. Although he is Orthodox in practice, Jacobs has long shocked his bearded rabbinical colleagues in the Orthodox-controlled United Synagogue, Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: The Jews of Britain | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Just how the U.S. should adapt its foreign policies to meet the changed situation has not yet become the subject of a Great Debate. But it has stirred up a lot of talk, and one who had his say last week, in the nearly empty chamber of the U.S. Senate, was Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Whose Myth? Whose Reality? | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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