Word: globalitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, the time is at hand when each service, with its own missiles, has a global capability, when each has its own missile war plan, when each is building up its own weapons system virtually without regard to the other services (e.g., the Army is building a missile system to protect cities; the Air Force is building one to protect air bases). This not only makes for a cumbersome, inefficient defense system, but it could also bankrupt the U.S., if allowed to continue...
Meteorologists are quick to admit that they know next to nothing about the basic mechanics of the world's weather. They lack firm data on basic determinants-global air currents, worldwide cloud-cover, distribution of radiation from the sun, etc. Without such data, last week weathermen were puzzling over an announcement by Dr. Roger Revelle, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, that the Pacific Ocean along the West Coast grew warmer by two to five degrees centigrade this year, bringing tropical fish as far north as the state of Washington...
...complete story of General Thomas Dresser White required that TIME talk at length to the Air Force generals who make plans and decisions for White's global striking force. But fast-moving airmen are not always easy to corner. The Washington Bureau's Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha...
...time a thoroughgoing professional and a global intellectual, a military and civilian thinker who, during off-duty hours on overseas tours, studied Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, even Chinese. During a South Pacific tour, his carousing comrades came upon him at night, studying by candlelight a book called Micronesian Languages, When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer...
...satchels, the combat crews checked the emergency war plans they had learned by heart in daily briefings in the U.S. and in Morocco, photographic and radar pictures of their preassigned targets in Russia, routes of approach and getaway, estimates of enemy defenses and radar capabilities, the latest of the global Strategic Air Command's four-hourly reports on the weather over the Soviet Union (cloudy to overcast more than half the time, necessitating radar bombing). Sidi Slimane's alert force met its deadline...