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...most sweeping change of the week was still only a blueprint. But its size and scope were staggering. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had arrived at a realistic estimate of what it would cost to build up the strength the U.S. and its allies needed to meet the pressing threat of world Communism. The program, reaching far beyond the $17 billion the President had asked of Congress since Korea, might eventually take one-fifth to one-sixth of all that the U.S. can produce each year...
...BLUEPRINT FOR MOBILIZATION
Behind closely guarded doors in a room set aside for the National Security Council, the argument went on. Acheson's blueprint originated in the State Department's planning and policy group, headed by Banker-Economist Paul Nitze. It had the backing of Foreign Affairs Adviser W. Averell Harriman and War Mobilizer W. Stuart Symington. After two days of shirtsleeved debate, it won the endorsement of the Chiefs of Staff of the three armed services-General J. Lawton Collins of the Army, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of the Air Force, Admiral Forrest Sherman of the Navy...
Until two years ago, New York was the only state without a state university.* Then a commission headed by retired Industrialist Owen D. Young (General Electric) recommended that New York start one. The state legislature agreed, approved the blueprint of a $200 million general plan. The first step: administrative union for a group of 29 scattered schools of all sorts for which New York was already paying the bills, including teachers' colleges, technical institutes, schools of forestry and industrial relations. To distinguish it from privately administered and financed New York University (N.Y.U.), the new omnibus outfit was named...
Somewhere in the growing archives of the Council of Europe rests a document which only the younger historians of today may have a chance to evaluate. It is Winston Churchill's detailed blueprint for a European army. When Churchill made his proposal in general terms, the Council's Consultative Assembly enthusiastically adopted it (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week, as soon as Churchill had flown back to London, the Assembly's Defense Committee put the Churchill blueprint away in the files, and adopted a vague and valueless watered-down version of the original...