Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Able by their arms to intimidate civilian authority, brass-hats have spent some $2.5 billion on munitions since World War II-more, in most countries, than goes for health, education and development programs. The standing armies total 500,000 men and cost $1.4 billion a year...
...India will evacuate ten other passes and strongpoints along the border; 2) in the Western or Kashmir region, China claims to have been in occupation of large areas of Ladakh not for just two years but since 1950, and with the help of frontier-guard units and "3,000 civilian builders" to have laid big roads, "cutting across high mountains, throwing bridges and building culverts" without India's knowledge, thus making "absolutely unconvincing" India's claim to jurisdiction; 3) the strong implication that unless China gets what it wants in Ladakh, the Communists may enlarge their demands...
...possible solution, said Hopwood, is for the Air Force to substitute civilian-taught courses for some military-taught ones. This would save military personnel. The Air Force would also consider reducing the basic compulsory two-year program to one year, and cutting down the number of participating schools. But the Air Force has no intention of dropping the program. "Today," said Hopwood, "the R.O.T.C. has become really a C.O.T.C.-Career Officer Training Corps-the source for the bulk of our active-duty officers...
...weeks France's National Assembly has debated the cases of nervous Draftee Jacques Charrier, 23. cinemactor bridegroom of Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot, and Civilian Yves Saint-Laurent, 23, twice-deferred head of Paris' high-fashion House of Dior. Last week France's Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat himself spoke up: hospitalized Charrier is really "an urgent case for observation and treatment"; willowy Designer Saint-Laurent will be drafted-come hell or high fashion -next September...
...China, decided to go to Red Peking. When the State Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent...