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...socialist suspicion of free enterprise, would not let private firms bid on defense contracts. Military orders were funneled into state-run arsenals that were supposed to turn out everything from jet fighters to harness straps for army mules. Most of Menon's arsenals are still in the blueprint stage...
After a year as White House military adviser, General Maxwell Taylor, 61, was sworn in as new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A onetime proponent of a single chief for all the services, the old paratrooper now reserved his judgment. "I am not arriving," he said, "blueprint in hand as a crusader for change...
...defense and budgetary decisions would in effect still be "reserved" for the President. Parliament would be a virtual rubber stamp body, subject at any time to dissolution by the all-powerful chief executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency. If De Gaulle were to die tomorrow, the office would go to Senate President Gaston Monnerville, an undistinguished politician from French Guiana...
...warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed by 15 to 20 of the Army's workhorse "deuce and a half"' (2½-ton) trucks. And Dr. Merton Joseph Peck helped design the celebrated McNamara blueprint for reorganizing the Army National Guard and reserves...
...political reality than either De Gaulle or Adenauer. For that is their job-to turn "general aspiration into a concrete proposal," as one Monnet associate put it-and they have been doing it well since the committee was formed in October 1955. Its first public declaration was a virtual blueprint for Euratom. the joint Western European agency for the peaceful uses of atomic power. By applying pressure to strategic points, the committee also helped mightily to push the Common Market treaty through European parliaments. Last year it aired the possibility of a single European monetary system...