Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest-scale amphibious maneuvers in history. With the aid of clips from combat film, the details of training, the assaults on Jap-held islands, the rescue missions and the chilling kamikaze attacks off Okinawa are brought vividly to life. Not so effective are the inevitable flashbacks to civilian life and love, featuring Julie Adams...
...hopped between government agencies, spent a term as special assistant to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. In 1945 he became counsel to the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy. With the late Senator Brien McMahon, Newman helped write the key bill that placed atomic development under civilian control. Since the war he has been a magazine editor (Scientific American, the New Republic) and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale. Sometimes controversial and always spectacular wherever he goes, Newman was once described as a "remarkably fissionable personality...
...they had to be withdrawn from service. The British, charged Waterton, are "trailing behind America and Russia," which have both produced supersonic fighters in quantity and have bombers in service "twice as big as our largest." Through lethargy and bad planning, Britain's planemakers have missed the rich civilian market for helicopters, light business aircraft and long-range jet airliners. Even if the British wished to introduce U.S. designs, "we haven't the means of transferring them to the production belt. We are building planes almost identically in the way we did 15 or 20 years...
...flamboyant Manhattan Trial Lawyer Emile Zola Berman,* 53, a World War II Army Air Force intelligence officer (Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star), who took the case without pay, on the urging of a committee of New York lawyers and judges that rallied to help McKeon. Berman, with his three civilian and three military aides, set about trying to prove that training marches into Parris Island tidal swamps were common practice-and that the toughness and spirit of the Marine Corps are based on such disciplinary techniques. "Sergeant McKeon," rasped Berman in his nerve-pinching voice, "was a dedicated member...
...last week NATO South command listed 692 U.S. officers and men, who were provided "logistic support" (carbon paper, groceries, Kleenex, cigarettes, household appliances, etc., etc.) by 2,103 military and 534 civilian aides in town, supporting a resounding total of 3,166 wives and children. What do they all do? Explained one Navyman: "All those people take in each other's washing...