Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, all three of the armed forces will need a highly trained core of "electronics tacticians" to operate the missile fleet, MacIntyre noted. This core--to be composed of career men, rather than draftees--will enable the Defense Department to employ less manpower than it does at present...
Riesman declared that further integration would enable Radcliffe to help Harvard by developing a more liberal, less career-oriented, attitude toward education. On the other hand, he said that further integration would "hopefully" make girls less "anti-career...
...deciding on a career in the arts. Herter was following in family footsteps. His German-born grandfather, the first Christian Herter, was an architect and interior decorator who designed and lavishly adorned the Fifth Avenue mansions of such gilded-age moguls as J.P. Morgan and William H. Vanderbilt. In his early 40s, having piled up a million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became...
...arms; 2) Nasser seized the Suez Canal; 3) Dulles tried with U.S. allies, with the U.N., to work out a solution and failed. But when Britain, France and Israel launched a sudden attack against Egypt without notice to the U.S., Dulles took the toughest stand for principle of his career. Said he, extemporaneously, in one of his finest speeches...
Bill plans a career in research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...