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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tactical atomic bomb. Pundit Walter Lippmann suggests that guerrilla warfare might become the only thinkable type of conflict. Another possibility: since no nation could be expected to submit to ultimate defeat through the attrition of a series of limited wars, the tendency would be for such wars to expand until the imperiled nation, in desperation, finally pushes its ICBM button. With that risk involved, even the smallest war in its ultimate consequences could become too hazardous for the undertaking. The form of war might therefore shift entirely to economic, social, political and ideological conflict...
...Army revolves around a time-honored concept known as the mobilization base. The mobilization base consists of a cadre of regular troops, a stockpile of arms and ammunition, stand-by production facilities, National Guard and Reserve units, etc.-all of which are geared to help the Army expand to 100 divisions in less than two years after war comes...
...make a study of nonmilitary cooperation among members of the NATO alliance, will spend much of his time on that project in coming months. Pearson told a press conference that a long questionnaire had been sent to the 15 NATO capitals inviting suggestions on how the alliance could expand its economic, political and other non-military functions. The Pearson-Lange-Martino committee-"The Three Wise Men,"-will collate the replies and prepare a report for the NATO countries, "for anything they wish to do with...
...junked old methods, drew up a new curriculum, now has five Midwest high schools trying his theories on college-bound students. Many mathematicians regard Beberman's new method as the most important reform in nearly a century, and the Carnegie Corporation has voted a $277,000 grant to expand and test...
...Boston and Broadway runs last fall. He stated at the time that it should not be lengthened, and was too honest a dramatist just to pad it out, as Tennessee Williams obviously did with Summer and Smoke. After the play failed, a re-examination led him to revise and expand it a bit; but the expansion into two acts, including a couple of important new scenes, adds only about ten minutes to the running time. The Wellesley company is giving the new version its public premiere. Both the play and the production are a marked improvement...