Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strategy, rather than dollars and cents, was the Commander in Chief's concern during the 2½-hour meeting with the military leaders. (Even as he prepared to confer with the President, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, in a speech read for him in Manhattan, opposed as "folly" sharp cutbacks in conventional forces.) Unlike last year, the military men were not asked to sign a public statement supporting the 1961 defense budget...
...Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while Thors go to Great Britain. In second-generation, solid-pro-pellant missiles, the Navy's submarine-launched Polaris fits the same general specifications as the Air Force's land-based Minuteman. By Pentagon estimates, $1.5 billion could be saved over the years by a combined program. Yet the two overlapping development programs continue. Other 1961 specifics...
...being developed at a cost of millions to fit warheads that have not been tested, and, under the moratorium, may not be. All these tests could be made underground without fallout. "Without further tests the development of our next generation of weapons is stopped cold," said a two-star general. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the top civilian bosses of the Pentagon all agree that testing should be resumed...
During its first year, the Center devoted its time to the planning and definition of future work. For purposes of analysis, the group chose three general areas in which to concentrate its efforts: American political development and the traditions it has fostered; the influence of social mobility in emphasizing the individual; and the role which voluntary organizations have played in limiting the power of the state...
...first of October, 1935, a provision in the General Laws of the Commonwealth required all teachers to take an oath of allegiance. The law stated, "No professor, instructor, or teacher who is a citizen of the United States shall be permitted to enter upon his duties within the Commonwealth unless and until such oath or affirmation shall have been so subscribed...