Word: blueprinters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-standing explanation for the secret Yalta deal was not a pretty story, but it was nicely detailed. Yalta was pictured in subsequent official communiques and speeches as the place where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, sitting together as brotherly men concerned with establishing enduring world peace, drew the blueprint for the United Nations. Stalin, a friendly fellow at heart, needed a little encouragement to make sure that he would help out in the war against Japan. Hence the West's generosity* at Yalta to the U.S.S.R...
...greatest country in the world is still going about it hit or miss. The confusion is so great that even Washington's own planners are worried. Bewildering, often contradictory directives pour out, without relation to each other or their combined impact on the economy. There is no master blueprint with which to fit all the pieces together or determine how big a burden the economy can stand. Belatedly, with a new cabalistic word ("programing"), the planners are now trying to draw a blueprint. In every bureau, secretaries chirp: "Sorry, the Administrator is in a programing session...
...those figures stack up against U.S. strength, present and planned? At the moment, the Air Force has little better than nine fighter-bomber wings-some 675 aircraft-available for support of U.S. ground forces overseas. The bulk of them are in Korea. In the blueprint for a 95-wing Air Force, there will be roughly 18 tactical wings of this kind, equivalent to one for each of the contemplated 18 U.S. divisions. At best, the 95-wing Air Force, properly equipped with the newest airplanes, is still at least 18 months away...
After two days of discussion, nobody seemed happy about the blueprint. The Methodists called for a "more definite plan" that would go into detail about procedures and describe more specifically the functions of bishops. The Disciples of Christ wanted the nomenclature kept "fluid and descriptive." The Congregationalists complained of ambiguity. Episcopal Bishop Stephen E. Keeler of Minnesota, present only as an observer, deplored the plan's cavalier treatment of the sacraments and its concept of the ministry. Methodist Bishop Oxnam (see below), en route to a World Council of Churches meeting in Paris, wrote that he was "confused...
...first shock the first day. He asked the warden for some staff assistants to help administer psychological tests, and the warden simply gestured toward the cell blocks and told him: "You have 2,000 men to choose from." Convict assistants had not figured in Wilson's blueprint. But he wound up with six of them: a safecracker, a smuggler, a counterfeiter, a forger, a gangster and an innocent who had taken the rap for a woman...