Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense. "The striking power of our Strategic Air Command is beyond imagination. The unmatched competence of our atomic submarines is known to all. Under a new law-incidentally one for which I fought for twelve long years-the Defense Department has been reorganized. In no single year was more than a million dollars actually spent for the development of long-range ballistic missiles until this Administration took office. Today the so-called missile gap is being rapidly filled...
...their children to public schools beyond the eighth grade-a quirk that has got the Amish into trouble with state and county authorities (TIME, March 24). The strictest members of the sect balk at social security levies on the grounds that I Timothy 5:8 and other Bible passages command them to take care of their own. And they do: records in Wayne and Holmes counties show not a single case of an Amishman seeking public assistance of any kind...
...Russians have a military air fleet of between 18,000 and 20,000 planes, mostly jets. Their bombing force-about equal in number to that of the U.S. Strategic Air Command-consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber...
...jets, nuclear submarines, atomic bombs, missiles and electronic computers, science and military planners have been painfully slow coming to the rescue of the foot soldier. But last fortnight the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Va. displayed an arsenal of new gear designed to give the well-armed G.I. more mobility, independence of action and firepower in the next war. Items...
From his first (1938) book of long short stories to his latest novel, Richard Wright has given proof that anger can sometimes command more attention than art. He has one string to his bow: the shameful plight of the Negro in the white man's world. His writing is graceless, and he uses it with the subtlety of a lynching. It is doubtful for just how many of his fellow Negroes he speaks. But it is impossible to read him without sharing his indignation...