Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strategic Air Command. The U.S. mowed down in one day's U.N. Security Council debate the U.S.S.R.'s propaganda charges against "provocative" SAC flights over the Arctic (TIME, April 28), mustered up such a huge majority (possibly nine to one) that the U.S.S.R. withdrew the complaint. Then the U.S. called on the U.N. Security Council to reopen debate on the U.S. proposal, rejected by the U.S.S.R. last summer, for an Arctic "open skies" inspection zone...
...preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which...
After ten years, eight months and seven days of independence, an Indian last week finally took command of India's navy, which has been operating and fighting under British commanders since 1613. At a sunset ceremony in landlocked New Delhi, Britain's Vice Admiral Sir Stephen Carlill, 55, handed over control of the 41 ships and 8,800 men to Rear Admiral Ram Dass Katari, 46, the first Indian to reach flag rank. Many Indians had complained that the "Indianization" of their navy came too slowly, but the Indian government preferred to wait until its own officers were...
...jokes in the script, and nobody in his cast can create laughs out of thin air. John Wolfson is scarcely what Gogol had in mind for the chief conniver, but his cold authority works very well instead of the greasy glibness the author intended. Mr. Wolfson knows how to command a stage, and his performance is one of the evening's best. As the other gambler, Ronald Coralian does a straight part well...
Died. General Maurice Gamelin, 85, commander of combined Anglo-French forces in France at the outbreak of World War II; in Paris. Removed from his command after the German breakthrough and blamed for the army's ignominious showing, Gamelin was tried by the Vichy puppets for inefficiency, later interned by the Germans at Buchenwald, lived out the days of peace in quiet retirement near Paris...