Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from West Point in 1920. His most publicized wartime experience occurred when he and General Mark Clark waded ashore before the invasion of North Africa. When Clark lost his pants, Lemnitzer lent him his. More important and much less well known is the fact that Lemnitzer, a brilliant staff planner, was one of the drafters of the NATO treaty...
Some voters may spurn four-year terms, feeling that as planner and administrator the Governor and cabinet should stand frequent tests of public confidence. Yet biennial legislative elections provide abundant popular guidance since the General Court limits and supplements the Governor's program by approving, modifying, or rejecting his proposals. The four-year term would enhance, rather than cripple public control: with four years' aging, the flaws and virtues of a state administration would become more apparent...
...Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego...
...companies, plans to build a 100,000-kw. nuclear plant in western Massachusetts, and hopes to have it finished by 1957. A second group of nine firms, including Detroit Edison Co., has asked permission to build another 100,000-kw. plant in the Detroit area by 1958. A third planner, Consumers Public Power District of Columbus, Neb., plans to have a 75,000-kw. nuclear reactor running in Nebraska a year later, while still a fourth group, including Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., wants to build a bigger 180,000-kw. nuclear power plant near Chicago...
...history and art. They took courses in logic, ethics, esthetics, gulped down big doses of music, economics, architecture, studied some of the major concepts in the social and natural sciences. Though their classwork was done mostly in seminars, they heard lectures by such scholars as Anthropologist Carleton Coon, City Planner Lewis Mumford, Yale's Henri Peyre (who spoke on Rousseau's Confessions), Brandeis University's Ludwig Lewisohn (Faust), Colby's President Julius Seelye Bixler ("Empirical Calculation of Consequences"), and Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm ("Psychology and Ethics"). They visited the U.N., the museums of Washington, Philadelphia...