Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar armed forces began to explore new ways of war, the Air Force installed Schriever in the Pentagon to help plan a vague new development program. Month after month thereafter, he moved unobtrusively about the fringes of the chaos of the U.S.'s first moves into missilery. As early as 1950 he was one of the very few-and very unpopular-airmen who did not like the Air Force's cherished B-52. Schriever argued obstinately for a lighter, faster bomber that could fire air-to-ground missiles...
...German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris) and ''one of the most influential painters of the postwar period" (in Germany). In the U.S., where Hartung is having his first one-man show at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries, the Museum of Modern Art's Director of Collections Alfred Barr Jr. calls him "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." Hartung himself is more laconic. Asked by a Parisian art critic...
...plan is being ramrodded by energetic, bottle-bald Maurice Lemaire, 61, State Secretary for Industry, who gained fame by his postwar reconstruction of the French National Railroads, which he bossed from 1946 to 1949. Just back from an on-the-sand survey, Lemaire optimistically figures that the Sahara can produce at a rate of 3,500,000 bbl. a year for France by 1958, although there are now only three wells. To meet that short-range goal, the Cabinet last week allocated $6,000,000 to build two 150-mile, 10 in. pipelines from the oilfields at Hassi-Messaoud...
...business. They start out as bootleggers, save enough to reopen a bombed-out manufacturing plant where they turn steel helmets into saucepans. Within a year they are beating plowshares back into steel helmets. The author's debatable but haunting notion that history may be repeating itself in postwar Germany is enhanced when the general is released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms. As he raises his arms to his Prussian god and furiously demands, "Give me back my career!". Von Puckhammer goes completely, if implausibly, mad-"manic-depressive insanity...
...satire does not grow readily from Germany's heavy soil. One notable postwar exception is Forward, Gunner Asch! (TIME, Oct. 29), which aimed its laughter mostly at the petty tyrannies and tribulations of noncoms. Now another German satire boldly advances to spoof the other end of the Wehrmacht hierarchy. To General von Puckhammer, peace is a prelude to war, life a dress rehearsal for death. He regards a soldier's calling as holy, for he believes that God is a fellow Prussian. When his monocle glints, junior officers blanch. But just as no man is a hero...