Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the chances for official Army approval of this new plan are almost nil, improvements are still evident. Army ROTC has two civilian courses now. The Air Force unit this year adopted a radical innovation, completely doing away with all freshman Air Science courses. Even the isolated Navy is instituting a group psychology course for next year's sophomores. With ROTC now confronted by threatened obsolescence, the beginnings of a sensible re-evaluation of its basic foundations are both welcome and necessary...
...Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...
...urged that the separate civilian and military space agencies be brought under a single over-all unit similar to the Atomic Energy Commission. Hayward, boss of the Navy's research and development programs, testified before the Senate Space subcommittee...
Taylor stated that "the American army is generally a civilian army in time of war, and plans never work out according to the way they're set up." Trying to record "not merely what was supposed to happen but what actually happened," Taylor and his group must have succeeded, as the fact that their case studies are still used in training in camps will testify...
...twin hearings in Seattle and Juneau last week, a Senate Commerce subcommittee stewed over the biggest economic problem of the nation's 49th state. The great salmon fisheries, which normally bring 41% of Alaska's $146 million annual civilian income, are on the verge of destruction. In the past 23 years, the pack has slipped from 8,500,000 cases to 3,000,000 cases in 1958. This year the outlook is for a bare 1,800,000, the lowest level since the canneries started keeping records...