Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilian courses will be added to the Army ROTC program this spring to raise the academic standards of officer training at the University. The revised program will enable Army ROTC students to offer only 16 1/2 courses for their College degree...
...Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaim his long-promised constitution. This was the moment when Egypt was to pass from military dictatorship to "republican and democratic government." To mark the switch, Nasser and his eight-man junta had resigned their army commissions. They took their places on the platform wearing civilian clothes. "The true revolution begins today," orated Nasser. "The whole people will constitute a supreme council for the revolution." "Ascha Gamal!" (Long live Gamal), chorused the crowd...
...late 1953, Trevor Gardner, Assistant Air Secretary for Research and Development and onetime electronics manufacturer, was assigned to study the whole situation. He gathered a topflight military staff, and consulted civilian scientists of the highest caliber, one of whom was Mathematician John Von Neumann, now an Atomic Energy Commissioner...
...missilemen are not happy, however. Both civilian and military, they know too well the potential effect on the earth of thermonuclear warfare. They fear that some small, irresponsible nation may get hold of a missile or two and blot out the capital city of a nation that it hates. Or perhaps when the great nations are armed to the teeth with long-range missiles and nervously watching each other, some quick mistake will be made. An innocent meteor may be mistaken for an invading missile. There will be no time to check or debate, and the decision to fire...
Guns in the Basement. Hughes, 35, an Iowan who spent 16 years in the Army, showed up in Washington as a civilian in 1953 looking for a job as a McCarthy investigator. He never got it; but that was how he described himself, according to the prosecution, when he called on Democrat Fritchey, promising sensational disclosures because he was "disillusioned." Fritchey paid Hughes for months of "research." When that failed to produce any legal evidence against McCarthy, Fritchey bade Hughes goodbye...