Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Begun in June, 1954, the USAREUR (U.S. Army, Europe) Religious Retreat House, Alpine Inn, Berchtesgaden, Germany, has served the religious-retreat needs of all denominations since that time. As of this date, some 26,000 military and civilian personnel stationed in Europe with the Army and Air Force have participated in retreats at Berchtesgaden...
...Force contract by Bjorksten Research Laboratories at Madison, Wis. Filled with bubbles made by hydrogen gas, the new metal is one-tenth as heavy as aluminum sheet, can be sawed, nailed, bolted or glued to other objects. Immediate military use: as lightweight parts in jet planes. Potential civilian use: as a fireproof, rot-resistant substitute for lumber in residential house construction...
...surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler's V2, Wernher von Braun, to deliver what he called "mitigating" evidence. "Is not Nickerson bitterly partisan?" he asked one witness, a German research scientist. "Yes-in favor...
...Government lawyers after they studied the decision had an even sounder ground for bewilderment: in taking jurisdiction away from military courts, the Supreme Court provided no substitute. If military courts cannot try such civilians as Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith, who can? Clearly, no U.S. civilian court now has venue in such overseas cases. -Should Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith-and others like them-be turned over to the countries in which they committed their crimes? That answer would raise such a row as to make the noisy case of Specialist William Girardt seem a quiet thing indeed...
...disability of excessive ambition. Lunging too fast for power, he postponed the presidential elections originally set for June 16, then maneuvered to get himself a full six-year term without an election. He ordered the army to purge itself of anti-Fignole officers, demanded commissions for his black civilian partisans. Once he routed Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, the chief of staff, out of bed at 2 a.m. because he wanted to talk...