Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading lawyers and administrators, including Rexford T. Tugwell, a member of the original FDR "brain trust," Walter H. Blucher, perhaps the most famous living planner in the world, and Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, will speak in a newly established lecture series under the sponsorship of the Department of City and Regional Planning...
...Architects. Two dedicated men deserve most of the credit for the Common Market scheme. The idea was born to France's Europe-minded planner, Jean Monnet, who keeps a model of the Kon-Tiki on his desk as a symbol of those who take brave risks to prove an idea in the face of skepticism and indifference. The other man is NATO's newly chosen Secretary-General, Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, who has presided over the interminable treaty negotiations in Brussels. One reason why the near completion of the Common Market has burst on Europe...
...Bounds. The trouble, huffed the Committee, was the failure of Soviet planners to stay within the bounds of "the real possibilities of securing enough material and financial resources for fulfillment of the plans." Out of the chief planning job went chill-eyed First Deputy Premier Maxim Saburov, apparently only shunted aside, unlike his predecessor Voznesensky, who was executed in 1949. The new planner is scholarly looking First Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervukhin, 52, who has risen high as an industrial manager (the approved biographies, which always make top Reds humble sons of the proletariat, list him as a blacksmith...
...peacetime assignments did not necessarily predetermine the weapons and forces that field commanders could use in war time. He also promised that the Army could conduct "feasibility studies" on the use of an intermediate-range missile. But his assurances did not mollify the Army brass. Snapped a top Army planner when Wilson's decision was handed down: "This thing isn't going to stop us." The Army's probable next line of defense: congressional hearings at budget time...
Imitation. Born in Poland and taken to New York at the age of two, Analyst Lubell did not turn to his specialty until he had already carved out a career as newsman, free-lance magazine writer and Government planner. In World War II he served as right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed...