Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
Believe It or Not. Born in Bremen, Germany just 46 years ago, Ben Schriever came to the U.S. at the age of six, bringing with him a severe earache ("The ocean, I remember, was very rough coming over"), the memory of Zeppelins passing thunderously at night above his family's apartment in Bremerhaven, and a fluency only in his native tongue. It was 1917, and the U.S. had interned his father Adolf, an engineer for the North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American...
...cold war's most cherished political concepts has long been that of the limited war, in which each side would abide by a sort of atomic-age Marquis of Queensberry rule book, refraining from using nuclear weapons on the ground that to use them would mean ruin for both sides. But though defense budgets have long been shaped to concentrating on atomic bombs, missiles and artillery instead of masses of infantry, the notion persists that there might still be a direct confrontation between U.S. and Russian arms in which only conventional weapons would be used...
...shows"). Last week the McCrarys snagged a performer who had turned Wallace down cold: Negro Singer Eartha Kitt. Eartha talked charmingly about such things as doing "primitive dances" with James Dean, and recalled her recent visit with Nehru. Said Tex: "Nehru is a widower and twice your age; he's demanding, possessive, of another race. Would you marry him?" Eartha: "That's a very silly question. Of course I would if I was inclined to be in love with him. But one or the other of us would have to go into the background." Unabashed, Tex swung again...
After these seven crowded years - there would be 40 weeks in each academic year instead of the present 32 - additional internships or residencies, though desirable, would be optional. Upshot of the plan: after graduation from high school at the U.S. average age of 18, the aspiring M.D. would be ready for practice at 25, cutting two years from medical education. More important, the plan's sponsors hope, he would still feel free to go into research in his most imaginative and productive years...