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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broader and more direct control over the man in uniform, bypassing the service secretaries in operational matters. The old requirement that the services must be "separately administered," now reads "separately organized," i.e., the Defense Secretary cannot abolish services, but the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force are no longer in the chain of operational command. The Defense Secretary now has explicit authority to assign weapons to services as he sees fit, a powerful weapon in itself for putting an end to service rivalries...
...Wednesday morning, when it became clear that the Iraqi revolt was a resounding success and that there was no longer anyone there whom the U.S. could rescue, the West's action turned into a holding operation in Lebanon and Jordan, bolstering the last few remaining leaders in the Middle East who had ranged themselves beside the West (holding two pawns, while losing a knight, the London Observer described...
Promising to press his campaign against Yugoslav heresy to a victorious end, Khrushchev congratulated the East German party on its "pitiless struggle for purity against revisionism and opportunism," and won his loudest cheer of the day with a final promise: starting Jan. 1, 1959, East Germany will no longer have to pay $144 million annual support contributions to the Soviet forces...
...that Westerners are attracted by Zen partly because it shuns supernaturalism. "In Zen the safari experience of awakening to our 'original inseparability' with the universe seems, however elusive, always just around the corner. One has even met people to whom it has happened, and they are no longer mysterious occultists in the Himalayas nor skinny yogis in cloistered ashrams. They are just like us, and yet much more at home in the world, floating much more easily upon the ocean of transience and insecurity...
...Street. With the Casals Festival scheduled as a yearly event in Puerto Rico, it seems unlikely that the master will ever again make music on such a grand scale in Prades. He no longer has a residence there, nor is he entirely welcome in the hamlet he made famous. This year his landlord jacked up the rent of the cottage he always occupied. And the cellist himself was a little difficult. "If M. Casals met God in the street," remarked a town official, "there is some doubt as to who would take precedence." Offered an apartment in nearby Molitg...