Word: developers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witnesses who testified before the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee on the state of the U.S. defenses, lean, beribboned Lieut. General James Gavin, 50, boss of the Army's Research and Development section, spoke up with the most telling criticisms and the most imaginative recommendations. Paratrooper Gavin declared that the Army could have put up its own Sputnik before the Russians (but was dealt out of the race), complained of what he felt was the continuing downgrading of the Army's mission in modern war, urged that the U.S. head straight past missile development into...
Civil Defense. "Our civil defense program and that of our allies is completely inadequate...In the age of the ballistic missile, the known capability of a society to withstand attack will become an increasingly important deterrent." Specifically, the U.S. must develop an attack-proof radio warning net, begin building radioactive fallout shelters coast to coast (but a fantastically expensive blast-shelter program deserves more study), disperse stockpiles of food to meet famine and industrial reserves to meet economic chaos (with immediate tax incentives for companies that build new plants away from target areas). Beyond this obviously costly program...
...this big, wide-ranging movie, scope is stressed at the expense of depth, and there is no time to develop any very complex characters. The most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow...
...machine that will speak, understand or translate human language, solve mathematical problems with imagination, practice a profession or direct an organization, either we must reduce these activities to a science so exact that we can tell a machine precisely how to go about doing them or we must develop a machine that can do things without being told precisely how," Friedberg stated...
...effective leadership possible. The pressures of missile technology and loose handling of missile problems by the Pentagon have given new currency to an old idea, most recently and vigorously expressed by the Air Force's retired Lieut. General James H. Doolittle and the Army's research and development chief, Lieut. General James Gavin (TIME, Dec. 23). Both point to the weakness of the present organization of the Defense Department, which in effect sets U.S. military policy by compromise, and ends up letting each separate service go pretty much its own way. Doolittle and Gavin suggest that an integrated...