Word: marshallized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: In a national radio and television speech (see below), President Eisenhower named Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James Rhyne Killian Jr. as his Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Killian's assignment: to marshal U.S. science against the advance of Soviet technology. Killian will not be a "missile czar." Instead, he will act as the President's trusted eyes and ears, will join the small group of advisers-such as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams-who have immediate access to the President. Acting on Killian's advice, Ike intends...
...receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
There were, of course, a few unavoidable absences. Marshal Georgy Zhukov was nowhere to be seen, and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito, suffering from a case of lumbago aggravated by the ticklishness of his international position, stayed at home in Belgrade. But to show how civilized the Soviet state has become, the audience even included three discredited Khrushchev foes-Georgy Malenkov, Dmitry Shepilov and Lazar Kaganovich (who, when asked about his present work, replied: "That would be very difficult to explain just now"). On the dais, clustered around Red China's Mao Tse-tung, sat the leaders...
Stepping briskly past the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum, where new Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky took the salute that two weeks earlier would have gone to Zhukov, the troops of the Moscow garrison drew a roar of cheers; so did the trim female marchers of the Spartak Sports Club, who carried a large globe around which revolved two model Sputniks. But the hardware that clanked through the world's most effective display case for military might was impressive chiefly for mass rather than quality. Of the 38 different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception...
...elections for Class Marshal are presently held in February or March. The University has long wished an earlier election to provide more time for Commencement preparation...