Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howard T. Lewis, professor of Marketing, received the highest citation awarded to a civilian, from the United States Air Force. Material Command, last Tuesday...
...braid-bedecked uniform from Venezuela's main military academy, and Marcos decided to become an officer too. His nearsightedness barred him from his first choice, the air force, so he took the school's two-year course in artillery, and at 18 got his first command, a battery of two venerable cannon. After a stretch of teaching at the academy, Pérez Jiménez finished his own military education with three years at the Peruvian War College in Lima. By 1945 he was a major, and-like 16 other young war-school graduates -rebelliously resentful that...
...Venezuela goes into its fifth year under Pérez Jiménez, many of the other passengers on the oil-powered dreamboat profess to admire the skipper's hard-fisted style of command. "Don't rock the boat," say prosperous U.S. businessmen, happily noting the political quiet, record oil production, boom-time construction and the rising standard of living (70% up in the last decade). But the advice is given so often as to reflect at least a subconscious awareness that the boat may be somewhat unseaworthy. Sample weaknesses...
...aggressive course of the U.S. foreign policy" and its "open propaganda and preparations for a new war." He blustered against the Paris agreements, and warned Germany "they would render it impossible, for a long period, to re-establish Germany's unity." He talked of countermeasures: a new unified command of satellite armies to offset SHAPE. He waved Russia's H-bomb: "U.S. aggressive circles have miscalculated once again . . . The matter has progressed so far that in the production of the hydrogen weapon ... it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is ... the . . . laggard...
Although most editors had an inkling of internal tensions in the Soviet high command (TIME, Feb. 7), only three newsmen were directly tipped off. Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., his aide, Frank Coniff. and his chief European correspondent, Kingsbury ("Joe") Smith, on a brief visit to Russia got a tip from Khrushchev himself. In an interview three days before the change, for no apparent reason, Khrushchev mysteriously suggested they interview Bulganin, and added that "probably early next week" would be a good time to see him. They made no mention of this in their dispatches, instead reported: "Khrushchev . . . ridicules...