Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DEFENSE. As the unchallenged boss of the Pentagon, the Defense Secretary should have the right to transfer, reassign, abolish or consolidate functions in his department. He should also have "adequate authority and flexibility" to transfer funds within and between the Army, Navy and Air Force, including not only research and development funds but also funds for strategic planning and for operations. With the consent of Congress, the President would remove one present stumbling block to the Defense Secretary's authority: the incongruous statement in the National Security Act that the Army, Navy and Air Force must be "separately administered...
...approved by Congress, the new agency would form around the tried and tested nucleus of the 43-year-old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, would operate much like the Atomic Energy Commission, for the benefit of both civilian and military customers. The Defense Department's new Advanced Research Projects Agency would continue to handle space projects "peculiar to or primarily associated with military weapons systems or military operations." Just as AEC is watched over by a general advisory committee of top scientists, so the new NASA would be guided-but not run by-a new presidential advisory committee...
...bomb movement. The noise made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar Square in a protest march to the Aldermaston nuclear weapons research center 50 miles from London. But their public impact seemed to be fading...
...Psychologist Ernest Dichter, specialist in motivational research-"MR" to Madison Avenue clients (TIME, May 13)-probed the motives of both doctor and patient, told a forum of 1,000 physicians in Washington that they should abandon the "father image" role of the old-style family doctor. Dichter advised: "Accept the fact that today's patient has grown up and can read current medical articles," and treat him more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees...
...previous dozen. The government's official view was that smaller monkeys are not necessary for polio vaccine. But unofficially, the reason was increasing religious pressure from India's monkey deifiers. plus a dark fear that other countries really use the monkeys for rocket and radiation research. Whatever the reason, by last week the market was effectively killed. Unable to find enough six-pounders, hundreds of trappers went out of business in India, cut off all but a fraction of the monkey supply. And while U.S. drug houses have passed the peak of polio vaccine demand, the Indian ruling...