Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first four years, NATO built up conventional land strength to counter the vast conventional land strength of Russia. But now that atomic advances have heightened the "quality of danger," the Western allies must turn to the job of improving the quality of defense. The next important NATO project: to adjust to the age of the atom...
...produced only one offspring. But the Bronx curators were not discouraged. When they got three live platypuses in 1947 (TIME, June 9, 1947), they devised elaborate plans for breeding the two females. One of the three, Betty, died of a cold. But Penelope and Cecil, the male, seemed to adjust themselves gradually to the alien Bronx. Penelope and Cecil were fed extravagantly on worms, insect larvae, frogs and water plants. In summer each had an outdoor private swimming pool, and in winter they retired to an indoor platypusary...
When the Secretary of Agriculture reorganizes his department, inauspicious bureaus like the Soil Conservation Service are supposed to adjust with stoic indifference. But in eighteen years of advising farmers how to make their lands more valuable, the Soil Service has developed a strong esprit de corps. Working with other federal bureaus, the Service has saved so many millions of acres that its attitude on erosion control has become almost fanatical. Thus its protest was understandably loud when Secretary Benson announced his new plan which will strip the Soil Service of most of its functions, and delegate conservation control...
...catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes as the Globetrotter Gadget Bag ("Leather-covered sponge rubber bumper for carrying against body," $42.50) ; Steineck A-B-C Camera ("Straps to the wrist . . . brilliant finder for sighting at waist level," $150); Flexing Powelites ("Portable Sunshine . . . adjust your lights to any desired position...
...aggressive and imperialistic, or noble and disinterested, can be promoted." He wants them to apply "to political transactions . . . the same knowledge of human nature which Americans use daily in their national card game, poker." Above all, he wants the U.S. to stop taking the initiative only in emergencies, and adjust itself to the permanent crisis, "the psychology of the long pull." The U.S. must build a "smooth-running system" for all the free world-"the American Empire...