Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep...
Early next morning, Ike met for more than an hour with Civilian Space Boss T. Keith Glennan, who bid for a big increase over the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's present $500,575,000 budget. Ike gave no sign of his response. No sooner had Glennan left than the President posted an order to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoning them to an 8:30 a.m. meeting next day. Then, heeding a forecast of afternoon showers, Ike cut short morning paper work, laced on his golf shoes and headed off for the first...
...atomic age, the pushbutton big wars as well as the brushfire small wars must be fought with forces-in-being, cutting sharply the utility of the civilian reserves that were so effective in World War II and Korea. Active reserves of all three services are in better shape than they have been for generations; e.g., most of the Navy's 135,000 active reservists are organized in much-needed anti-submarine warfare units, but hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted in keeping books on thousands of inactive reservists whose future use to the nation is highly doubtful...
...warheads that have not been tested, and, under the moratorium, may not be. All these tests could be made underground without fallout. "Without further tests the development of our next generation of weapons is stopped cold," said a two-star general. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the top civilian bosses of the Pentagon all agree that testing should be resumed...
...turn were also court-martialed. Other underpaid officers (a four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June, when investigators stripped 1,829 army tires from civilian vehicles, Transport Minister Kim II Hwan had to beg Song to call them off-"Otherwise Seoul and other cities will be without any public transport...