Word: interment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, he said, that the West has never been in sight of the 1952 target of 85 military divisions in the central sector of Europe, and that while tactical nuclear weapons and the possibility of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile had lessened the danger somewhat, they also created great uncertainty as to when, and in what manner, NATO forces would actually be used...
...humor of the inter-connected affairs is suggested through subtle shades of irony rather than by the rapier-thrust of social criticism. Although the picture takes place in the Vienna of 1900, director Max Ophuls has lifted it out of any specific time and place and has wrapped it in the mists of something resembling fantasy. His photography is excellent. Like an uninvited guest, the camera peeps out between swaying curtains to take in the soft tones of a series of lush interiors and to catch, as if by accident, the people who sport in them. As a result...
Three problems plague the attainment of an effective civil defense program for the United States. Lack of inter-state, inter-city, and national coordination, lack of public interest, and lack of a realistic civil defense program are the obstacles in the road to a more sound program for survival in a nuclear conflict. The present civil defense system has proven inadequate because of inefficient cooperation, apathy, and misguided effort. The situation is only worsened by recent proposals of the Federal Civil Defense Administration...
...examination of the loose organization headed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration shows a primary cause of inefficiency. State and municipally employed officials work almost independently. Although the administration of equipment and evacuation procedure requires greater inter-state and inter-city co-operation, little effort has been made to co-ordinate permanent operations on a national level...
Conant discussed the idea again, before the Harvard Club of New York the same month that his original proposal appeared. Again he emphasized the importance of the inter-departmental, intellectual cross-fertilization, of getting "university-minded men" to help counteract the divisive effect of Harvard's size, of commissioning "outstanding scholars who would be free to roam about the entire university...