Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Immediately the Indo-China problem flew to the top of the agenda of the National Security Council. Last week the President appointed an NSC subcommittee, consisting of Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith and Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes, to draw up a plan of action with the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Joint Chiefs believe, professionally, that the war is being lost because the French tactics have been poor. From a strictly military viewpoint, the chiefs would like to 1) install a U.S. commander, 2) support him with U.S. air power and a naval blockade of the China coast, 3) give him money and men to develop independent native armies-much as General James Van Fleet developed them in Greece and the Republic of Korea...
Last week McDonnell Aircraft Corp. showed its XV1 convertiplane, a joint Army-Air Force project designed to sidestep many of the difficulties. On takeoff, the engine blows air through the hollow blades of the rotor. When it reaches the tips, the air makes fuel burn in small "pressure jets." Their thrust spins the rotor and lifts the ship off the ground. Then air and fuel are cut off, and the rotor idles freely while a pusher propeller flies the convertiplane like an ordinary airplane...
Within the past few weeks it appears that the free ride is over. Following the suggestion of Harvard's John Monro, eastern colleges have agitated for a central scholarship clearing house, where a paid College Board staff will objectively appraise financial need of applicants, and then determine a joint stipend for the colleges to sue in awarding grants...
...that shocks many Italian industrialists. By his example, he tries to demonstrate the widespread changes he feels are needed if democracy is to survive. The bankruptcy of the managerial class has gone so far, says he, that the big monopolies cannot reform, should gradually be transformed into joint stock companies owned by local communities and by such foundations as workers' and technicians' cooperatives...