Word: ments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secondary possibilities of atomic war, says Chemist Jack De Ment, in The Military Engineer, is atomic duds. During a bombing attack, one city may be spared while other cities near by are heavily bombed. But into the heart of the untouched city, the enemy may drop a peculiar, ominous object to start a destructive panic...
...Ment, raising the problem for military engineers to consider, gives no solution. Even experts would have a hard time distinguishing a delayed-action bomb from a dud or a harmless fake, especially if the object had been seen to sink to the bottom of the harbor. Civil defense authorities would have to decide promptly whether to evacuate the city, and a wrong decision either way would prove costly. In any case, the threatening object would have to be investigated, and this would not be a job for the poor in spirit. "An atomic-bomb disposal unit," says De Ment conservatively...
...Laniel has represented the department of Calvados in the French Parlia ment for more than half a century. When old Henri Laniel, wealthy linen manufacturer, died in 1932, if seemed natural to Normans that son Joseph, a much-decorated artillery captain in World War I, should take his father's seat in the Assembly. Young Laniel achieved no particular distinction in politics, though in the dark days of 1940 he was for a time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory...
...reserve colonel, Strong during World War II was chief of the liaison branch of the Army Service Forces' international division. He came back into the Govern ment in 1947 as chief of the EGA Loan Division, joined the Ike-for-President forces in 1951. He and his wife are personal friends of Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway. Strong's appointment was held up for 3½ months because of security investigations into reports that he had been socially acquainted with Alger Hiss...
Only the draft-conscious class of '53 had more men on the Dean's List and fewer unsatisfactories than the previous senior class. Juniors had 3.2 percent more Dean's List ment than their predecessors, but far more unsatisfactories. The number of sophomore failures hit a new comparative high...