Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reorganization plans, and legislative attempts to plug up the holes in the system. But all the efforts to strengthen Defense Department control over the separate services have, in fact, served mostly to make the office of the Secretary of Defense itself an unwieldy, sprawling compromise of an organization, with nine assistant secretaries, about 300 committees and 2,151 staffers. Far from working toward unification of forces, the Defense Secretary's office has virtually become a fourth service. It sits uneasily atop the civilian hierarchies of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with the power of military decision farther...
...makeup artist arrived at Sandringham to advise Elizabeth on such problems as foundation creams, face powder and eye shadow. Homey touches abounded: a shelf behind Elizabeth's chair bristled with Christmas cards; a large photo of nine-year-old Prince Charles and seven-year-old Princess Anne stood at the Queen's elbow. Wearing a brocaded afternoon dress, the Queen was positioned at her oak desk, sitting sideways from it so that she faced directly into the camera and into the eyes of an estimated 50 million viewers in Great Britain and on the Continent...
When the Federation of Malaya gained its independence and full-fledged membership in the British Commonwealth last August, Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman immediately dispatched a message into the jungles (TIME, Sept. 16). Its net: if Communist terrorists still holding out after nine years of costly guerrilla warfare against the British would lay down their arms and forswear Communism, they would get a full pardon. Those unwilling to give up Communism got the offer of free passage with their families to Red China. Rahman gave the rebels until year's end to accept his "final" offer...
...Russians' artificial moons has altered standard theories of the earth and its atmosphere. Last week scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge suggested a drastic revision of an accepted notion of the earth's upper atmosphere: at about 137 miles altitude, the atmosphere may be almost nine times as dense as scientists once believed...
Died. Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, 64, erudite, cherub-faced whoduniteer (The Nine Tailors), translator (Chanson de Roland), playwright (The Devil to Pay), rapier-witted Anglican writer on theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...