Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists. The Chinese Communist threats to conquer Formosa, and the stepped-up attacks on the offshore Nationalist island of Quemoy (see FOREIGN NEWS), last week brought an equally powerful presidential warning that the U.S. would not hesitate to counterattack, and it brought prompt deployment of U.S. fighting forces. New element in the Quemoy warning: the U.S. was prepared to retaliate by bombing the attacker's home bases if necessary...
...another: "Good luck, Pat" and "Give 'em hell, Pat." Pat Brown grinned happily, pumped hands with a proficiency that would make Estes Kefauver seem like a subway straphanger. "Hey," he cried to no one in particular. "I feel a speech coming on." Candidate Brown was in his element, doing what he knows and likes best. He was being just plain Pat, making himself liked-and running well ahead of the opposition...
...Thach's worst problem is neither the submarine nor the submariner. It is the submarine's element, the sea itself-12 million sq. mi. of ocean surface in the North Atlantic alone. Surface surveillance, given enough men and equipment as well as allied cooperation, is a technical possibility. But it is of the unknown depths of the sea, the mysteries of the 2 billion-year-old undersea world, that man knows pitifully little. More is known of the near side of the moon than of the ocean floor...
Tactics from Matchsticks. He was also working relentlessly at solving tactical problems, and late one night, after jockeying matchsticks across his table for hours, he arrived at a memorable maneuver. Based on the premise that the traditional three-plane fighter element was an inefficient formation for aerial battle, Thach had figured out a two-plane weave pattern. It was soon to be used. Within hours after Pearl Harbor, Lieut. Commander Thach, now in command of Fighting 3, sailed out across the Pacific aboard the Saratoga. The carrier took a torpedo before the airmen ever got into a fight. Switching...
...clear that Jungian psychology today has two factions: 1) an orthodox group in favor of strict adherence to Jung's doctrines and pursuing work only along the lines he has indicated, with emphasis on archetypes, the human race's collective unconscious, and myths; 2) a progressive element in favor of a widened approach to man's problems, including new emphasis on the importance of childhood experiences in molding the adult (an area that Jungians formerly had largely ignored because they felt it was a field in which the Freudians had gone too far). Though Archiater Jung refused...