Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your Dec. 23 article, "Break Up the Joint Chiefs." I feel that the military situation would be enhanced greatly if this were done. As a starter, the Pentagon should conduct a thorough study of the German World War II Armed Forces Supreme Command. They might find many fertile ideas...
...Force will get about $19 billion, the Navy about $11 billion, the Army about $9 billion, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense about $1 billion. New this year is an additional request in the White House budget for a $500 million "contingency fund," for quick commitments whenever break-throughs are scored in weapons research and development...
...Pentagon itself, where in the last analysis he would either make or break himself, Neil McElroy began making decisions where for months there had been indecision, started reversing the policies that had caused the U.S. to fall behind in the struggle for technological superiority. "More decisions have been made in the Pentagon in the last six weeks than in the last six years," cried Texas' Lyndon Johnson. Said Pundit Stewart Alsop in an otherwise gloom-ridden column last week: "It begins to seem possible that the soap industry has miraculously given this lucky country a first-rate Secretary...
...three times they packed her back home. "She was unhappy, but she never said just why," observed a girl friend. "Maybe she was lacking in love and affection at home," suggested Patrolman Daniel Rosato, who picked her up in November, handcuffed her when she scratched him and attempted to break away, finally cajoled her into talking about herself. "We never spanked her," said her mother, attractive Ruth Nystrom, "but I was strict with her. That's the way I was brought up. She didn't seem to resent it. Mothers used...
Wild Weave. Last week Christine rebelled for the fourth furious time. Walking along Mount Vernon's Lincoln Avenue one afternoon, she noted a red Chevrolet parked with ignition off but unlocked. Explained Christine afterward: "I just felt I had to break the law." She broke it by sliding behind the wheel, driving the car onto the Hutchinson River Parkway and heading south toward New York City. At a toll station, the same cop who had stopped her the first time as a runaway recognized Christine...