Word: basic
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Since last spring, when Dick Nixon first tapped him for the big job, Len Hall has been carefully sorting out the professionals and organizing a basic training program for the amateurs who will work for Nixon. A longtime advocate of massive amateur movements, he has modeled the Nixon clubs after the highly successful Citizens for Ike organization. He has padded surefootedly on recruiting trips through Florida, North Carolina and Illinois in recent weeks, and his booming voice has reached out over the telephone to Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire and Iowa, to summon the faithful. In response to an urgent...
...examinations is a challenge to the philosophy hitherto basic to NATO's military planning-the concept of an integrated, internationally commanded force in which each member nation would concentrate on the weapons and services that it was particularly well equipped to supply. This concept De Gaulle is openly determined to eradicate. Said he in a little noticed speech to France's Center of Advanced Military Studies fortnight ago: "If France should have to fight a war, then it must be its own war. It must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion . . . Naturally, if the case...
...servants now privately concede that Britain's postwar isolation from the Continent may have been a historic mistake in foreign policy. But dominant forces in both the Conservative and Labor parties seem reluctant to leave the safety of the three familiar circles. The old isolation speaks to something basic in British pride. The government's attitude toward Europe still seems to be to procrastinate and to improvise. Britons argue that Franco-German amity is unnatural, that a European movement without Britain is bound to fade once De Gaulle or Adenauer is gone, and that the Common Market structure...
...Navy during the war, Florsheim discovered in himself an unexpected streak of scientific acumen, developed a radar plane-spotting technique that is still considered basic. But at war's end Florsheim still found himself as far as ever from solving the problems in his art. He buckled down to a back-breaking work schedule in his Chicago studio and exhibited only on occasion...
About 250 students will be housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...