Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implement the new approach. Eisen hower had sent Congress a plan to reorganize the Department of Defense (see below). But he was not ready to answer in detail the question which correspondents tried to ask in a number of ways: How will the cuts affect the size and strength of the Air Force, the Army and the Navy? There would be more buildup than originally planned during 1954, the President said, but it is not yet possible to say what the final result will...
...difficult to describe the vacuum which provost Buck's departure will leave. The job of Provost, combining charge of numerous organizations like the Harvard Yenching Institute with the task of running the Faculty, involves more detail and more broad scope, more fiscal genius and more grasp of principles, then we can describe in a few paragraphs. Mr. Buck not only filled the job but made it, and through it impressed his ideas firmly on Harvard much to everyone's benefit. Like all posts whose first occupants made them what they are, that of Provost and Dean will be very difficult...
...submerged land which lies from the low water mark seaward to the states' historic boundaries (10½ miles in the case of Texas and the gulf coast of Florida, three miles for all other states). The Senate is expected to pass a tidelands bill differing in detail from that of the House...
Soap-Dish Detail. Elder Benson, as he is known to fellow Mormons, settled down to the life of an Apostle in a ten-room Devonshire-Norman-Spanish house in Salt Lake City. Like many good Mormons, the Bensons set aside one night a week to be spent with their six children (the eldest, Reed A., 24, is now an Air Force chaplain). Such "family nights" are always opened with a prayer and a reading from the Scriptures; then Benson flicks on the family jukebox for some spirited dancing with his four daughters...
Father O'Connor has a good reporter's sharp eye for detail, lets the religious notes sound where they belong. In the early months of the Korean war, riding north to cover a combat jump with a Flying Boxcar of paratroopers, he heard confessions on the way to the target, blessed the men as they went out the door. "With marvelous precision," Father O'Connor ended his story, "our flight lands, each wide-winged plane seconds apart from the next on a sunny, peaceful field. We are hundreds of miles from where we saw men drop...