Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already the U.S.S.R., by sacrificing "the civilian sector" of its economy, had passed the U.S. in the quantity and quality of many high-priority weapons. The Russian atomic stockpile, long smaller and less diversified than the U.S.'s, is now growing to the point where Communism can inflict grievous damage. The U.S.S.R. has a force of modern jet bombers with electronic defenses, a fleet of 4OO-plus submarines, even an arsenal of operational medium-range ballistic missiles with which the Communists can now attack targets in Japan, Formosa, and most of Western Europe (but the U.S.S.R.'s intercontinental...
Eisenhower also called for stern priority tests for both military and civilian spending. Although he noted that "our real purpose will be to achieve adequate security," he said that the outlook is for a roughly balanced budget for the 1959 fiscal year, starting July...
Dreamboat Squealer Elvis Presley, 22, got a 60-day draft deferment in order to complete a movie (TIME, Dec. 30), prepared for his farewell to soft civilian life by donating a trunkful of his cuddly stuffed Teddy bears, plus two black and white toy pandas and a fake koala, to the March of Dimes for auctioning later this month...
Elusive Critter. What was it? Reporting the 1955 outbreak in detail in the A.M.A.'s current Archives of Internal Medicine, Drs. William L. Wilson, Charles D. Williams, Saul L. Sanders and Richard R.P. Warner (now back in civilian practice) rule out various diseases that exhibit some but not all of the same symptoms-notably infectious mononucleosis and infectious hepatitis. (Also eliminated is a bacterial disease, leptospirosis.) Though similarly baffling, the mysterious complaint is medically distinct from the strange epidemics of "Iceland disease" that have swept some London hospitals and Punta Gorda, Fla. (TIME...
...Since his retirement from the Army in 1953, the President has had to pay the $8.50 civilian subscription rate rather than the $6.50 military price...