Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case for the present system rests on the fact that in 1948, when there was no conscription, manpower was about 600,000 short of actual needs; that the present draft not only adds men directly to the armed forces, but creates a pressure that persuades others to volunteer. Moreover, the concept of "universal service" has worked thus far in practice (nine out of ten men now twenty-six are serving their obligation) and is patriotic in theory...
...moral? Youth is Short and Art is Long. Bird is fond of its plumage of ideas. Samples: 1) time "hardens people." 2) life is "wild dreams," 3) the significant difference between human beings is whether or not they have pleasure in love...
...Driscoll and Monte Amundsen, highlight a Marc Blitzstein score that is more thoughtful than tuneful. Stars Douglas and Booth have the skill and charm to appear to be singing and dancing while actually talking and jogging. But Juno cannot solve its main problem: how to do O'Casey short of actually doing O'Casey...
...long program to give the U.S. its first true submersible designed primarily for underwater work. Conventional diesel-electric submarines spend most of their time on the surface, are long and slender with sharp bows and flat decks. Submerged, their unstreamlined shape produces high drag, and their feeble, short-lived storage batteries push them along at a sedate, one-horse-shay speed. Even nuclear subs, whose main engines need no air and can operate at full power underwater, are timid compromises with tradition so far. The first Nautilus has a vestigial bow and deck, is not as round as she should...
...Navy scrapped all remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...