Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan itself (TIME, April 14)-that will go far to squelch harmful high-level interservice rivalries. Henceforth, said the order, the Secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force will submit recommendations for promotion of generals and admirals above two-star rank to the Defense Secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff-and not directly to the President. It is Neil McElroy's intention not to promote men in positions of "importance and responsibility" to higher ranks unless they have "demonstrated . . . the capacity for dealing objectively-without extreme service partisanship-with matters of the broadest significance to our national security...
...space devoted to the summit in the Russian press has fallen off by 30%, and Russian diplomats no longer display their old volubility on the subject. Gromyko at first insisted on talking separately to the Moscow ambassadors from the U.S.. Britain and France, then refused to hold a joint preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
Candidate Lleras thus becomes the unexpected holder of delicately balanced power under his own post-Rojas plan for joint Liberal-Conservative control of Colombia. In the original deal, backed by the junta, political posts throughout the nation were to be split fifty-fifty between Liberals and Conservatives for a cooling-off period of twelve years; the first President would be a Conservative, the next a Liberal, and so on. Hopes were that the truce would cancel out the traditional inter-party hatreds that underlie the rural civil war; at the end of twelve years normal two-party politics could take...
...Wonder. The big snag in the plan was the top Conservative, tough old (69) ex-President Laureano Gómez. Angry at the moderate wing of his party for supporting his ouster by Rojas in 1953, Gómez ruled its members out of the running as joint presidential candidate, thereby ruled out every top-quality candidate the Conservatives had. Weeks of bickering finally convinced Gómez that Liberal Lleras was the best choice...
...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Dr. Frank R. Lemon of the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda made a joint report to the California Medical Society. Basis of their study: 8,692 patients admitted to eight Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in southern California in 1952-56. Of these, 564 were Seventh-day Adventists who did not smoke or drink because their religion forbids, while 8,128 were of persuasions that take no stand on tobacco or alcohol, so many, but not all, both smoked and drank. All patients had either cancer or coronary...