Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Service seemed hard, civilian life was no more inviting. Food and gasoline were available only on the ration system. There was little money to spend on Boston night-life. And even free speech was thought an extravagance that couldn't always be allowed. Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell fell victims to a controversial court decision in February, 1943; they were told they could no longer criticize high government officials on their radio broadcasts in this state of national emergency...
...some explicit analysis of many factors that 50 years ago probably would have been neglected." Fulbright was unmollified, echoing his disquiet over the Pentagon's influence on U.S. foreign policy that expanded under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "What you are really saying," Fulbright retorted, "is that the civilian heads of the Department of Defense are assuming the responsibility for making political judgments all over the world...
...keep starlight scopes from potential enemies and dedicated Peeping Toms, the Pentagon has so far restricted private sales. But eventually the scopes may be adapted for civilian purposes. Astronomers have already used similar devices to increase the power of their telescopes. With the technology now largely declassified, demand may build up among police, underwater explorers and airline pilots-anyone, in fact, who has a legitimate reason for wanting to see in the dark...
...handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...coalition with the Communists, nor make much difference to the talks that are going on in Paris. Far more important from the point of view of the U.S., which wholeheartedly endorses Huong's premiership, is that Huong is likely to replace the technicians of the outgoing Cabinet with civilian politicians like himself. If he does so, the government will be considerably strengthened in terms of popular support. It is likely to need all such support it can get in the trying days of talking and fighting that lie ahead...