Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talented minds of Hollywood or Broadway set a stage with more artful care. The title of the production was The Case of Colonel Nickerson, and for weeks the U.S. Army's drumbeaters were out proclaiming the coming attractions. West Pointer John C. Nickerson Jr., 41, World War II combat soldier (Silver Star, Bronze Star) and postwar missile .specialist, was risking 46 years' imprisonment as he faced Army court-martial charges ranging in effect from laxity through perjury to espionage. The plot line was that Nickerson, field coordinator of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal...
...pamphlets to parents and teachers on how to deal with delinquents, assigned crime-prevention specialists to lecture at civic organizations across the country. Meanwhile, local school boards are increasing their budgets to train teachers in guidance; the Tokyo board alone will spend fully one-third of its funds to combat delinquency. Said Director of Detectives Heiichi Kosugi of the Tokyo police: "If something is not done soon, the universities will become hotbeds of intelligent crime...
...Secretary Humphrey has failed to make much headway toward one of his primary goals in 1953; this was to stretch out and stabilize the debt by transferring much of it from short-term into long-term securities. Not only would such a transfer help combat inflation by sopping up credit, it would also make the Treasury's debt management job much simpler by cutting down on refinancing operations...
...agreement to make sharp cutbacks within the next year in the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now stationed in Japan, including a "prompt withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat forces," i.e., about 30,000 men of the Army. The 1st Cavalry Division, biggest U.S. combat group in the home islands, will pull out this summer. Probable destination: Korea. As Japan's new, 200,000-man defense force grows, Washington plans to make further reductions in the remaining 70,000-man U.S. force-for the most part Air Force and Navy personnel...
Nearly Faultless. Invasion goes on to do for Operation Anvil-Dragoon in the South of France what it does for Neptune-Overlord. The fighting for the southern beaches was a combat lark compared to the close call at Omaha. Naval support was close to perfection, and Morison, who saw service on no fewer than eleven vessels, thinks the South of France invasion was the "nearly faultless" large-scale operation of the entire war. One thing the U.S. fighting sailor will readily acknowledge, whatever his theater: no other fighting arm in World War II has found a historian with the flair...