Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROLES & MISSIONS. If he is to head off an interservice blow-up that will make past squabbles seem like mere brush fires, McElroy must redefine obsolescent service roles and missions assignments (air to the Air Force, sea control to the Navy, land to the Army) in the light of missile strategy, to which old geographic concepts no longer apply. Outer space, by present definitions, belongs to no single service; neither does defense against enemy space missiles. Neither, for that matter, does the missile itself. All the services are rushing in with proposals, claims, bids...
When Kansas Millionaire Bill Graham tried to spark a brush fire for capitalism in socialist-minded India last summer (TIME, Aug. 12), the government poured on cold water. Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari and others refused to see him. But last week Graham's dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour...
Blessed Mother Goose. Other critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever...
...Holling (Seabird, Pagoo) deals with America, past and present, in large, posterlike illustrations and detailed marginal sketches that make a handsome blend of the factual and fanciful. Robert McCloskey (Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder) catches the stillness of a Maine morning before a storm, with both his brush and typewriter. Ludwig Bemelmans has won as many adults as children with his Madeline stories and his Paris scenes, which look as if they had been drawn by a somewhat sozzled Raoul Dufy. Children's books may not read any better than (or as well as) they...
...civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live in the preserve...