Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appleton Chapel with a "War Memorial Chapel," in memory of Harvard's sons who died in the war to end all wars. Complaints fell into three main groups: first of all, the University planned to exclude the names of three Harvard sons whose loyalty was to the Central Powers and who died fighting against this country; secondly, many feared that the proposed chapel might turn out an architectural monstrosity in a Yard already cluttered with buildings; and most important, a large and vocal group, while in favor of a war memorial, stood strongly opposed to making it a chapel, especially...
...Central belief of the cargo cults is that the world is about to come to a cataclysmic end, after which God, ancestors, or some future hero will appear and establish a new order of things. In World War II, both sides benefited from this. G.I.s landing in the New Hebrides before taking Guadalcanal found the natives preparing airfields, roads and docks for the cargoes they thought were coming on magic ships and planes from the King of America, the potent Ruseful (Roosevelt). The Japanese were received by the Papuans of Dutch New Guinea with joy as harbingers...
Pork Chop Hill (Melville; United Artists). Silent over the battlefield hang the stars of a clear spring night. Suddenly a loudspeaker, shockingly close, blares among the forward positions: "WELCOME TO THE MEAT GRINDER!" The U.S. infantrymen, slogging up the lower slopes of Pork Chop Hill in central Korea, skip a heartbeat and a stride, and then move grimly forward-^into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote...
STEELMEN credit him with the major reorganization of Big Steel that eliminated the sprawling semi-autonomous subsidiaries, turned them into divisions of one central corporation that took responsibility for both policy and production. He pushed hard for a standard cost system throughout the company. He expanded its savings plan, whereby the company matches every dollar saved by its nonunion employees (the union turned down the plan) with 50? of its own, and he broadened the incentive program, which now covers 75% of all employees either through cash awards for production ideas or through stock options. Blough, who himself picked...
Died. Emory D. Alvord, 73, Utah-born Congregational missionary who brought "the Gospel of the Plow" to Southern Rhodesia, revolutionized agricultural methods in central Africa; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...