Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local scale, a better than ordinary example of preparation was being carried on in a building on New York City's East 28th Street. There General Lucius Clay, U.S.A. (ret.), topflight military staff planner, the man who stubbornly steered Berlin through the Russian blockades, who was now chairman of the state's Civilian Defense Commission, earnestly turned his mind to the moment when the awful crisis might arrive...
...defense? Is there any defense? Last week the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a 456-page volume, The Effects of Atomic Weapons* which gives the first official answers to some of these questions. In it are the ABCs of atomic disaster which every civil-defense planner-and every dweller in a target area-should know: what an atomic attack would mean, and what to do about...
...year-old General Chung was trained in the rough-spoken Japanese army, but has long been noted in Korea for his polite, unsoldierly speech. Says earnest, spectacled General Chung: "There are two types of army people: one is the fighter, the excitable, rough type. The other is the planner. It is the planner's duty to remain calm...
Most U.S. citizens still look on Latin America as a backward land of revolutions, strong men and cloak & dagger conspirators. In the July Foreign Affairs, a State Department planner who signs himself "Y,"* argues thoughtfully that surface appearances are misleading; beneath their often tempestuous politics, the Latin American nations are going forward toward orderly, democratic government. Writes...
...problems of India, and its people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister. When the Punjab hired Mayer, Nehru said: "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered with the traditions of the past." Designer Mayer was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "To a planner it is tremendously exciting. We start with just a blank sheet of paper and do as wonderfully or as badly as we can. It is an architect's dream...