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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Feet in the Fire | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Sukarno's constitution. Djuanda was at first evasive, finally lost his temper and shouted that "unpredictable things may happen"-a thinly disguised threat of a military takeover if the assembly did not get a move on. Angrily, the assemblymen three times refused to pass Sukarno's plan, and then voted to adjourn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Evil Hearts of Men | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...injunction against discrimination in the schools, whose 67,000 white and 46,000 Negro students are 10% of Georgia's school-age children. Carefully, Georgia-born Judge Hooper did not order integration by next September; he ordered the city's board of education to submit a plan within a "reasonable" time. He had reason for caution: arch-segregationist Georgia already has a ticklish law allowing Governor S. Ernest Vandiver to close integrated schools in order to "preserve peace and good order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unlocking Atlanta | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...that Harvey Haddix is pitching or Bill Virdon hit a homer. But when it comes to the steel labor negotiations, they do not know what is going on. They do not understand the issues. They do not know what they want. They have a vague idea that their pension plan needs strengthening. Some of them talk about shorter hours. They do not want to strike, but they will strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: What the Workers Want | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...start, two weeks after five years). But most of all, they want to retire earlier, at age 55 or 60 instead of 65, and on a pension higher than the companies' $72 a month. Argued Metal Drainsman Ed Winters: "I'd like to see a retirement plan that starts after 25 years. Make that 20 years. That's what civil service has-why shouldn't we?" The steelman also wants enlarged health insurance to cover doctor bills short of hospitalization and to carry on after retirement. "That's when you need it most," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: What the Workers Want | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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