Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary George Catlett Marshall called in Chrysler Corp.'s gruff President K. T. Keller to bring order out of the chaos. Despite service wails and groans, Keller canceled more than half the missile projects. But after he left the Pentagon in 1953, no overall missile boss with equal authority and toughness succeeded him, and the services promptly started backsliding into uncurbed competition...
...more emotional and more antique argument rests upon an expansion of the "eye for an eye" dogma. A crime, they say, warrants a punishment equal to its viciousness. But modern penal theory and greater concern for the individual life strongly dilute these arguments. Britain's Sir John Anderson states, "There is no longer in our regard of the criminal law any recognition of such primitive conceptions as atonement or retribution." A dogmatic, retaliatory instinct cannot justify the ultimate penalty...
...once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their own mind-by the umbrella of U.S. fear, the Soviets might...
...lifetime ago, can now do even more spectacular things than the rich and pompous West-thanks to Communism." Nothing could have struck more dramatically at the U.S.'s proud claim of technological and productive superiority for a free economic society. "I always thought America and Russia were equal in strength." mused one Indonesian. "Now it seems that the Russians are stronger...
Ever since the Syrians made their arms deal with Russia, Turkey has been nervously watching its southern frontier, has sent troops estimated to equal an army corps to "maneuver" near the Syrian bor der. Last week patrols exchanged shots for 45 minutes across the frontier. At week's end, to add to the tension, Egypt announced that "basic elements" of its air, sea and naval forces had arrived at the port of Latakia to bolster Syrian defenses...