Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward was handed his job in R. & D. when the Navy created the division in 1957, has since been one of the strongest proponents of a unified national space program...
Stroessner thought the power balance through, and on the day that Congress reconvened last week, he put on a civilian suit, rode in an open blue convertible escorted by plumed lancers down troop-lined streets to the Congress building, to make his yearly state-of-the-nation speech. There he announced his "aim of perfecting a durable, democratic regime." He said the government would introduce bills to lift the state of siege, proclaim a general political amnesty, lift restrictions on freedom of expression, adopt a new constitution...
Captain Gralla and his crew spectacularly beat the odds. The weather was foul for all three shots-in the third, Norton Sound was hidden from her escorts by a snowstorm-but the rocketmanship and the seamanship were superb. Each countdown, with 60 Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket...
...deputy chief of staff of the 15th Army Group, and commanding general of the U.S. contingent of that international force in Italy, he played a role in the negotiations with Premier Pietro Badoglio that led to Italy's capitulation in 1943. Later, dressed as a civilian (with a dachshund in tow), he managed the Allied discussions in Switzerland that preceded the German High Command's surrender in Italy and Southern Austria...
...quiet way, Far East Military Expert Lemnitzer helped build Japan's postwar defense forces, was a key figure in the successful diplomatic byplay that enabled the U.S. to keep strategic Okinawa in the face of growing local opposition. Says one Army general: "What Dulles was in civilian clothes to the Far East, Lemnitzer was in a uniform...