Word: combat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward...
Tutorials, theses, and more free time in the Freshman year might combat students' overconcern with grades and make the first year of college more profitable, Dean Monro suggested last night...
...Army, which had said it might have to drop one of its 15 combat divisions, decided instead to take the Administration's ordered 30,000-man manpower cut out of quartermasters, engineers, military police, ordnance and supply types...
Taking command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough...
Remove the Handle. Modern science's role in defeating infectious diseases has been greatly exaggerated, says Researcher Dubos. Many of the most terrifying-leprosy, plague, typhus-had all but disappeared from Europe before serums, vaccines and drugs were developed to combat them. Other Dubos debunkings...