Word: nike
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...Nike" Antonakaki, 51, is a cabinetmaker's daughter who worked out her ideas for updating Aristotle while writing a doctoral thesis on Greek education at Columbia University's Teachers College. Returning to Athens in 1955 with her journalist husband as the first Greek citizen to hold a U.S. doctorate in education, Dr. Antonakaki took a job as adviser to the Ministry of Education and began agitating for a progressive school system in Greece. Like Xenocrates' shoe, she argued, the old system was of good, polished leather but it no longer fit the foot. "Now science has invented...
...more than the White House had asked, with the Army getting the biggest bonus. Included in the bill were an extra $380 million nuclear carrier for the Navy, $85 million more for the Air Force's Atlas missile, and $309 million for the Army's Nike-Hercules and for Army equipment modernization. The Defense Department was directed to keep the Marine Corps at 200,000 men instead of the budgeted 175,000, keep the National Guard at 400,000 instead of 360,000, the Army Reserve at the level of 300,000 instead...
Attempting to settle one of the Pentagon's bitterest interservice quarrels, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy last week outlined a "master plan" for U.S. continental air defense. What it amounted to was a shaky compromise between rival antiaircraft missiles, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc. The solution satisfied hardly anyone, and the grumbles both from Capitol Hill and the Pentagon reflected an increasingly apparent fact: for Neil Hosler McElroy, sometime president of Procter & Gamble, one of the longest of all Washington honeymoons is ending...
...Battery A, 45th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, near suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. last week, blackbooted soldiers in fresh-starched fatigues worked over radar screens and Nike missile launch gear. Amidst the familiar incense of hot electronic equipment they chanted their trade litany as they practiced tracking on unsuspecting airliners: "Interlock held. Interlock cheated . . . Line volts O.K. . . . Three-quarters, three-quarters...
Space-age hardware like Nike drove the Army into a search for skilled manpower. In "Operation Meathead" (1957-59), the Army discharged 75,000 untrainables, as a byproduct cut stockade (prison) population from 6,300 to 1,500. slashed its overall courts-martial rate 22%. Its multimillion-dollar education program in 1957-58 qualified 40,000 enlisted men for high-school diplomas, by 1962 will put 1,200 in colleges. Half of the Army officers who do not have college degrees have signed up for courses. RANGERS FOR TOUGHNESS...