Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget makes only token cuts in force levels, proposes to halt no major projects except nuclear power for aircraft carriers. The rising cost of arms is met mainly by the timeworn device of "stretching out" procurement and development schedules on hardware. The stretch-out looks fine on paper; it keeps programs alive at a reduced spending rate, preserves the same high-sounding force goals for the future-but only pushes the future farther into the future. Actually, in the day of inexorable change the stretchout wastes more money than any other budget practice. It postpones operational dates on entire weapons...
...wake of Porter's memorable trip, his proposed recognition of Red China met with stony nonrecognition in the two places most concerned. "Crude interference in China's internal affairs!" cried Radio Peking. "Preposterous," said Hong Kong's pro-Nationalist newspaper, Shih Pao: "Our American friends should soberly think of the damage done to U.S. good will abroad by Porter's shallow views...
FOOD The First Battle In the up-to-date comfort of a vast glass-and-marble honeycomb on the edge of Rome, the U.N.'s 77-nation Food and Agriculture Organization met last week to talk about hunger. Binay Ranjan Sen, the former Indian diplomat who had just been re-elected FAO's director general, called for a speedup in "the fight against hunger and malnutrition," and touched the world on one of its rawest nerves...
...members). Shy, scholarly Archbishop Meyer, son of a Milwaukee grocer, is known as a brilliant administrator and a cautious interviewee-on his appointment to Chicago he refused to say whether he would transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned from Washington, Meyer chomped his chewing gum vigorously. "Of course, I am happy for myself," he said, "but I am even happier for the people of Chicago. We must be even more dedicated now." Archbishop Meyer is expected...
Sporting a 3-1 record the Yardlings, met Princeton but found out, to the tune of 20 to 12, that they were not the cream of the Ivy League. A victory over Yale would have soothed the Crimson's wounds, but the Yardlings' chronic troubles in the second half resulted in a disappointing finish to their season...