Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pointer" maps in a "serious study," terrain of undergraduate life at a "typical college," noting that morale at the civilian institution remains high, but that "the atmosphere is much loss formal." The cadet corps, which fancies one-inch haircuts tapering to a fuzz at the rear of the head, is also informed that many Amherst men also appear in crew cuts...
This filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower saw it is the first public showing of thousands of feet of film shot on the battlefronts of World War II by combat and civilian cameramen and hitherto withheld for security reasons. It will be presented in 26 two-reel episodes of 20 minutes each...
...head of the N.C.A.E., a group formed last year, is Allen Zoll. His old organization, American Patriots, Inc., was branded as "subversive" in December, 1947, by Attorney General Tom Clark. When Zoll applied for Civilian Military Training during the war, Army Intelligence refused his application. In 1939 Zoll was indicted on an extortion charge in New York...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...
...Commission recommends that the Secretary of Defense be given absolute authority over a reorganized department in which the three service secretaries would be directly responsible to him; he would have the same power in financial decisions. The commission wants to see the National Military Establishment "reconditioned under firm civilian control, putting national security over narrow service interests...