Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With remarkable speed that was attributed, in part at least, to Chris Herter, the U.S., Britain, France and West Germany had reached fast agreement on a compromise package (see FOREIGN NEWS) to put up to U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week. Essentially, the plan was based on the U.S. intention to work toward free elections in Germany and to stay in Berlin. But it offered some new variations on those themes: 1) postponement of elections pending efforts of an East-West German commission to get together, 2) some sort of gradual inspected disarmament in Germany...
...Sputnik I. But the high cost of shooting minds and money on Big Space worried Army thinkers who were certain that hard ground-war planning and weaponry had been neglected in the process. The Army has yet to replace the heavy, obsolete M-1 rifle with the officially approved, fast-firing M-14, to replace the World War I .30-cal. machine gun with the new M60, or to come up with a tank to match the Russian T-54 now in the field. "For $5 billion worth of troop equipment," cracked one division commander last month...
...there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla. He rose fast to brigadier general, took the 34th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade to England...
...Army's Ranger course at Fort Benning, Ga. has spread through all branches some 4,600 elite young officers and NCOs who know from bitter training experience what it takes to fight with a fast-moving battle group in the toughest campaigns...
...years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...