Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
Ability to Destroy. The line's most scholarly and most influential advocate is George Frost Kennan, 53, longtime student of the Soviet Union, top Truman State Department policy planner, author of the postwar containment policy, onetime Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952), and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University...
...growing service reputation as the headiest young staff officer in the Air Corps. From then on, his rise into the military stratosphere was at missile speed. Tapped by the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold ("I need somebody to help me do my thinking"), Norstad became a peripatetic planner. Starting off as air operations officer for General Jimmy Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force in Britain and North Africa, he soon moved up to the same job in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. In the last year of the war, while serving simultaneously as Deputy Chief of Air Staff...
...gave Norstad a formidable task: to prepare an estimate of NATO's force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises: "The Soviets will almost certainly have a strategic ballistic missile in this period." "The Soviets have announced intentions of launching an earth satellite...
...Sputniks and Russian rocket diplomacy, the Administration began a major effort to renew bipartisan foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred for 2½ hours with foreign-policy experts of the Truman Administration, e.g., former Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. and onetime State Department Policy Planner Paul H. Nitze. Subject of the meeting: plans for the Western heads-of-government meeting at the December NATO conference in Paris. Note of anxiety in the new planning: the U.S. will have a workable intermediate-range ballistic missile well before it has an intercontinental ballistic missile, hence will need...