Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money on spectacular aircraft-carrier plans, too little on undersea and antisubmarine warfare. High on the committee's list of possible recommendations: a change of the Pentagon's present Joint Chiefs of Staff system to something akin to a Defense Department planning staff recommended by Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. The committee's strong suspicion: the time has long passed when such major decisions on service spending as aircraft carriers v. antisubmarine warfare can be kept in the hands of the tradition-bound services themselves...
...Crimson basketball varsity trounced the fourth in a series of bush league opponents here last night...
Behind Teller came a top-name team of experts on science and military matters to criticize and suggest. Dr. Vannevar Bush, able wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, urged a revamping of the Armed Forces Unification Act "so that we can have in this country unified central military planning that transcends the interest of any particular service." Lieut. General James Doolittle warned that the U.S. must overhaul its educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services...
...Shocking." To each of these witnesses the subcommittee pressed a single serious question: Is a missile czar necessary to speed the U.S. missile program? All but Vannevar Bush thought that one was. But when the Senators turned to testimony from Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, they were informed politely but firmly that the missile programs had a top man: Neil McElroy. Missileman William M. Holaday, explained the Defense Secretary, is missile "director," and "I consider that I am easily accessible to him when he needs the power that I happen to possess.'' As for President Eisenhower...
EILEEN RODGERS is a pretty, 24-year-old song belter-whose belting is the wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice...