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...launching of the Russian Sputniks riddled many a cherished U.S. concept, including what was left of a tidy but fallacious military notion: that the Army commands the ground, the Navy rules the waves, and the Air Force controls the air. The post-Sputnik clamor for "leadership" can have few positive results unless the U.S. moves toward some system of military organization that makes effective leadership possible. The pressures of missile technology and loose handling of missile problems by the Pentagon have given new currency to an old idea, most recently and vigorously expressed by the Air Force's retired...
LIMITED WAR v. GENERAL WAR. During Wilson's regime, big-war thinking dominated U.S. military policy and procurements. But there is a rising clamor for the U.S. to prepare itself equally for small, limited wars; the Army especially is driving hard for the men and equipment, including airplanes; is already on the way to having an air force...
...uproar of frustration there was a rush to find a scapegoat. First in line were the scientists and Pentagon press-agents who had yielded to press clamor for information on this nonsecret project. Even Vanguard's Boss, Dr. Hagen, handed out some afterthoughts. "This program," he said, "has had unprecedented publicity in the development stage, which is not usually the case, and in many respects I think it is unfortunate. In this case, I think the enthusiasm of the country carried people beyond the point where the fact that this is a test phase was lost sight...
Will Congress, split 50-50, be able to work effectively? Won't the parties clamor threateningly for the more important Cabinet posts? Lleras knows well that his truce may collapse over just such stumbling blocks. His answer: "No one has thought that other courses could be harder-for example, living eight years under a state of siege. But we have just done that, and I do not see why we cannot now coexist peacefully, rebuilding the country, for twelve years." A crippled beggar in Bogotá spoke for most Colombians when asked if he knew what the plebiscite issue...
...Unique Office. The new budget looms as an awesome problem. The 1958 budget was, even before Sputniks, the biggest ($71.8 billion) in the nation's peacetime history, and it stirred a protesting clamor (if very little real budget cutting) on Capitol Hill. Now the Administration faces a need to add at least an extra billion or two for defense. That prospect is all the more complex because 1) the national debt is already scraping the legal debt ceiling ($275 billion), and 2) the 1957 recession will almost certainly shrink the Government's predicted tax returns, will also probably...