Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time, most civilian jumping in this country is centered in Woodbury, Conn. An airplane, chutes, packing equipment and timing devices, maintained by a small club draw a small coterie of active jumpers to this tiny New England village every week...
...court. Greyhound gets a settlement for dropping its threat to sue automaker on charge that half the 1,000 double-deck G.M. Scenicruiser buses bought by Greyhound developed mechanical trouble. Greyhound is now ordering 500 single-level coaches from G.M. for $17 million, remains G.M.'s top civilian customer...
...secret police). Another said he had had no trouble getting arms because the ordinary police turned them over willingly. There was a professor of psychology, called as an expert, who testified that "hatred of the U.B. got out of bounds." Comes the Revolution. Keynoting the Polish civilian attitude to the riots, Defense Lawyer Stanislaw Hejmowski said he was reminded of Delacroix's famous painting - the one of the French Revolution showing a young woman on the barricades and by her side youths with pistol and rifle. "If the king's police had won the battle, the prosecutor...
Also obsolete, he contended, is the original assumption that the dangers of military service should be distributed equally. The present peacetime military service is no more dangerous than "ordinary civilian existence," he wrote, and a person living in a city such as New York during a war might be in as much danger as one serving in the army...
...Washington. British Atomic Chief Sir Edwin Plowden told a World Bank symposium that when the world's first civilian power plant starts operating at Calder Hall this month "the total cost of power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power...