Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came out of World War II with its tradition of separate services intact, but the war's major lesson was the need for some measure of armed forces unification. The Army generally supported the unification idea-especially the Army Air Force, because in working out unification, the Army Air Force was to become the separate U.S. Air Force. The U.S. Navy, fearing that it would be swallowed up by amalgamation, launched a campaign of massive resistance...
Scott kept right on protesting that his wife must be alive somewhere. "If there is anyone who has any idea where she is or knows anything about her," he said to newsmen, "I would like them to communicate with my attorney...
Over the Andes. A dozen years ago the Summer Institute of Linguistics got the idea of flying its missionaries into Peru's roadless interior, used a wartime Grumman Duck piloted by U.S. Missionary Pilot Betty Green. The case for taking to the air was overwhelmingly proved; five hours of flying covered as much space as eight weeks of canoeing in crocodile-infested rivers past hostile Indians. Now S.I.L. operates twelve planes, well worn but carefully maintained, ranging from a Piper Super Cub (one passenger) to a Catalina (19). Almost all were donated by individuals or religious groups...
Last month Carlson released a report by Dean Theodore Blegen of the University of Minnesota that tagged S.U.N.Y. "an academic animal without a head," recommended a leading central campus to give all the others some sense of unity and direction. The trustees rejected the idea, and for the first time turned on Carlson himself with a reprimand for letting the report out. S.U.N.Y., they said in effect, will go right on being a vocational supplement to the private colleges and universities...
Curiously, the season's other major trend-the show built around a star vocalist-is boomeranging. NBC's Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying...