Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironies is that the exploration of space is inescapably tangled up with the momentous struggle called the cold war. Some of the talented scientists helping to shape U.S. space policy in Washington seem to think that by labeling outer space a "civilian" domain they can keep it free of the contaminating struggle. For a down-to-earth look at this wistful illusion and its dangers, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, On Pain of Extinction...
Many of the Administration's scientific brains, from Presidential Adviser James R. Killian down, have proved to be naysayers and quibblers, among other things stirring up a futile, irrelevant dispute over whether space is a "civilian" or "military" realm. Reflecting this dispute, U.S. space programs are split between two bureaucratic domains: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program...
...cold and the rain once more are From Here to Eternity civilian misfits who used to gravitate to the U.S. Army. Moving into an era of sophisticated weapons and scissored-down manpower allowances, the 900,000-man Army last summer decided to tighten requirements and improve the G.I.s. Enlistment and draft laws were toughened; minimum requirement in the Army General Qualification Test was boosted from a ten-point score out of 100 to 31. The tightening-up process extended to troops in service; e.g., 71,000 "eightballs" fingered by their C.O.s were honorably discharged last year, and technicians were ordered...
...provisional regime dismissed all provincial governors, mayors and councilmen. Apparently their functions will be taken over by new civilian appointees prepared in advance for the task...
...sugar plains of Las Villas province the rebels claimed the capture of several more small towns. The government gave credence to their claims by shaking up the army command, ordering in more reinforcements and warning the civilian population that it intends to bomb out any rebel attempt to hold the central province. Reports of heavy fighting came out of Fomento. near the Sierra del Escambray. The rebels held Sancti Spiritus (pop. 60,000) for a night, drove the army from Caibarién. a north coast sugar port, and closed in on the Las Villas capital of Santa Clara...