Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Sam Ervin, Chairman Lyndon Johnson and the rest of their colleagues in the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee hearings had reason to suspect that the Pentagon, like a complex missile, needed unscrewing badly. Having taken testimony on the state of the U.S. defense posture from military and civilian defense officials as well as scientists, the committee last week sat back while the nation's top missilemakers and planemakers opened up with an unprecedented and chillingly unanimous attack on Pentagon administration. By no means, testified the missile builders, is the U.S. doing all it can to advance its missile...
...artists, demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports filtered from Miratlores Palace that the officers who helped dump Fernández were pressing the dictator to slack off the oppression. Clearly, Pérez Jiménez' troubles were far from over...
What a thrill, after twelve years, to see a once familiar face in TIME, Dec. 30. I knew Byron G. MacNabb when he was a lieutenant in the Navy and I was civilian secretary to the officer in charge of the armament test unit of the Navy's Patuxent River station. We were both in the unit at the time they test fired the first rockets mounted on the underside of the wings of Navy planes-we couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot...
...Wizard. But General Dynamics' competence in weaponry stacks the cards heavily against rapid growth of the corporation's civilian lines. Vital defense projects are bound to grow rather than shrink in the next few years. Convair and RCA have already submitted to the Defense Department plans for an anti-missile missile, the Wizard II, which could search out an incoming enemy ICBM and explode it high in the atmosphere. The Wizard could conceivably be put into production by 1965 (at a cost of up to $5 billion) if the Defense Department gives an immediate go-ahead...
Sens. McClellan (D-Ark.) and Humphrey (D-Minn.) announced they would introduce a bill establishing a department of science and technology under a secretary who would direct the government's civilian science activities...