Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the next step in the tutorial system," said the Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley, Charles P. Whitlock. "The only way to combat bigness is decentralization...
...face it, Captain or Major or Colonel Beardmore, the Air Force is, with the exception of a tiny group of combat pilots, an organization of specialists-typists, mechanics, engineers, etc.-not fighters...
...credit for civil-rights progress-for example, in the armed forces? Ike would and did. Frequently using the pronoun "I," which he generally shuns, he spoke feelingly of his efforts to foster military desegregation during World War II. As far as he knew, Ike said, he was the first combat commander who ever incorporated Negroes into white units on the battlefield, and "they all got along together." Thus, when the Administration came to power in 1953, "it looked to us like it was time to take the bull by the horns, and eliminate it all, and that is what...
...present size of the Army (14 combat-ready divisions, 5 in training) has led to speculation about its ability to fight the limited wars that may arise. Both General Taylor, the Army's present Chief of Staff, and his predecessor General Ridgway, doubt that it is large enough. In the light of their statements, present Defense Department plans to cut the Army further are alarming. The mobile, "self-sufficient" divisions, able to move anywhere in the world on short notice, have been slow in developing. These divisions (the 101st Airborne is one) are an example of what a balanced force...
...engineers at California's Edwards Air Force Base knew Captain Milburn G. Apt as a quietly amiable man who liked nothing better than puttering in his garden and playing with his kids. At 32, he had 3,500 hours' flying time, a good World War II combat record, and seven years of flight-test training to his credit. It was a record that a few weeks ago brought him one of the Air Force's top test assignments: a chance to pilot the world's fastest (an estimated 2,000 m.p.h.), highest-flying (almost 24 miles...