Word: armament
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...slangy sweetness-and-light that in the past four decades won him an earnest following. At first these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world, he gathered testimonials-sometimes heartfelt, sometimes diplomatically polite-from kings, labor leaders. Oriental potentates, Mau-Mau leaders...
Died. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, 83, Pennsylvania-born Lutheran minister who founded the Moral Re-Armament movement; of a heart attack; in Freudenstadt, West Germany (see RELIGION...
...further help to the Army, the Air Force will get more of Republic Aviation's F-105 fighter-bombers, which can provide withering support to ground troops. In all, the Air Force will spend $425 million for new aircraft and equipment, including $111 million for conventional armament...
...Bases? Khrushchev pretended to be especially upset that the U.S. had responded to Russia's peace-loving overtures by raising its military budget. "This," cried Nikita, "may confront the Soviet Union with the necessity of likewise increasing its armament appropriations . . . and the strength of its armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...brother Howard, studying for the ministry in Princeton Seminary, was an ardent Buchmanite, and until recently worked fulltime for Moral Re-Armament. Gene mingled with the Buchmanites until one day a wire came from Buchman announcing that he had had "guidance" that Blake should bring John D. Rockefeller III to New York to have a chat with Queen Marie of Rumania. Blake wired back that this might be Frank Buchman's guidance but it was not his. "From then on," he says, "I decided to be an organization man-that is, to work through the regular machinery...