Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scoop") Jackson. One of Metheny's planners answered General Scott's Air Force paper with A Decade of Insecurity Through Global Air Power. Not yet, however, could the . Army break into the open. Still ahead was another conference in Puerto Rico-this time a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had been ordered by Dwight Eisenhower to get away from the Pentagon for a full-scale review of U.S. military policy, with special reference to the question of whether the service roles assigned by Key West needed overall revision. The Army planners hoped desperately that...
...conference began last March 3, continued for seven days, with Charlie Wilson sitting in on its final deliberations. In the eyes of the colonels, Taylor failed in his mission. The Joint Chiefs decided that Key West needed no sweeping revision, i.e., that technological developments could take their course. The Army did not gain an inch...
...Then, as now, the services were fighting, each of them trying to carve out a leading role in the postwar world. Defense Secretary James Forrestal corralled the joint chiefs at Key West, Fla., ordered them to forget about returning to Washington until they had settled their roles and missions. From these tense sessions came the agreement under which the armed forces operate-at least in theory-to this day. In an atmosphere of mutual suspicion, the Joint Chiefs were careful to specify that all words in their agreement would have the meaning "contained in Webster's New International Dictionary...
...Yugoslav-born Ivan Mestrovic, 72, the Gold Medal for Sculpture, at the Joint Ceremonial of the National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters, as the leading U.S. sculptor of religious subjects...
Intercollegiate debating, in the form we know it, began in 1892 when Yale challenged Harvard to a "joint debate." Some of the participants in that debate were graduates of Boston schools where debates had been held since 1887. The first debate in which no decisions were rendered, had three speakers without a rebuttal. After three years Princeton was added as a regular opponent, and finally, in 1909, the formal Triangulars were set up. Providing for simultaneous debates in Cambridge, New Haven, and Princeton, the Triangulars have been held annually since then, despite two wars and Harvard's break in athletic...