Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legal Career: Practiced law with a Newark firm until 1942, when he joined the Army and specialized in industrial and labor-manpower cases; in 1944 was made Chief of Civilian Personnel of Army Ordnance, was discharged as a colonel a year later. He returned to his law firm only upon his insistence that he be made a partner, subsequently built a widespread reputation as an expert on labor...
...last week made public details of another Soviet espionage case. Gennadi Popov, a second secretary at Ottawa's Soviet embassy - the same embassy where Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko exposed a vast spy apparatus in 1945 - was ordered out of Canada last July for trying to bribe an R.C.A.F. civilian employee...
West Germany was rearming in a mood of sullen reluctance. All over Germany, civilians were reacting to anything military with bitter hostility. Restaurants and bars posted signs: "Men in uniform not wanted." Readers canceled subscriptions to newspapers and magazines which carried recruiting appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers...
...planes) with its Viscount airliner (TIME, Jan. 3, 1955). As for Rolls's pure jet engines, its latest Avon turbojet is rated at better than 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, not only powers a wide range of military craft in Britain, but is also reaching out for civilian markets, will be in de Havilland's redesigned Comet IV jetliner...
...landed gentry-the balls and hunts, the troika races and officers' revels. The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov is fought in a dawnlit forest where snow and awakening sky gleam with as many frosty gradations of white as a pearl fresh from the sea. When Pierre, a civilian at the front, hears the opening guns of the bloody concert at Borodino, he runs awkwardly along a hillside, trying to peer ahead through a tangle of shrubbery until at last he stops breathless on a vantage point. The camera becomes his dazzled eye as it reveals spread out before...