Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior Hastings could not have been very amiable; even his parents, in deeding him the property, carefully noted that it was "for services rendered in taking care of his farm" and "not from a principle of love and affection." His call to command over bevers and commons was the result of the Overseers' crusade to have all undergraduates cat at Commons; the old steward having failed to enforce this order, the Corporation was forced to replace him with Hastings. If this won him his job, however, it nearly led to his ouster, too, for it set the stage...
...paintings show a Neo-Plastic preference for horizontal and vertical themes. The development of this kind of painting out of cubism is shown in the transition from a fairly realistic housetop view to a small painting of a studio window in which the qualities of design begin to take command. Most of Jennerjahn's other paintings consider the canvas as a plane and the paint applied to it also a flat surface. The overriding concern is the relation of colors and lines in the plane. Like Mondrian, Jennerjahn aims at purity through the reduction of means. The curved line, spatial...
...than just sweating out pennies and dollars. Ideally, by forcing department heads to translate plans into costs, the budget process teaches them how to get the best combination of plans for the least money. For example, the Air Force's General Curtis LeMay has made his Strategic Air Command cost-conscious right down to squadron level. A squadron commander who performs his missions and keeps his costs down is usually running a superior outfit because he has found ways to cut the number of accidents, keep crews healthy, and reduce the time lost in overhaul. A good budgeteer gets...
...circuitous route. He worked summer vacations as an entertainer in New York's borscht circuit, later spent a year touring 40 states with a Major Bowes unit as part of a three-man comedy act called The Micro Maniacs. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Minor rose to command a machine-gun company in the Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where he graduated as top man in his law school class. In 1949 he became administrative assistant...
Died. Major Lonnie Moore, 36, one of the leading jet aces of the Korean war (ten MIG-15 kills, one probable); in the crash of the Air Force's hottest supersonic fighter, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, which he was testing at the Air Proving Ground Command's Eglin Air Force Base...