Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of these moves were admittedly stopgap; e.g., it is entirely possible that neither Jupiter nor Thor but the Navy's solid-fuel Polaris is the IRBM of the near future. Neil McElroy has not yet had to put his personal drive or his organization-man's skill to the fullest test. Before he is through, he will have to. For the U.S. Secretary of Defense is no longer a man who prepares for hot war while the Secretary of State wages cold war. Indeed, U.S. defense shortcomings have been a major factor in the weakening...
...been postponed to 1960 at the earliest.) The Yugoslavs are also distressed by the poor quality of East German equipment purchased with Soviet credits, have left hundreds of East German cars and other machines sitting forlornly idle in a huge vacant lot in the center of Belgrade. The only solid benefit Yugoslavia has got out of Russian aid, declared one disillusioned Yugoslav economist last week, was a loan: $30 million in gold and hard currencies...
...conference (as his lieutenants had assiduously suggested), all trace of it had vanished by conference's end. Nasser held a reception for the 500 conference delegates at Cairo's Abdin Palace, granted long private interviews to the heads of Soviet and Red Chinese delegations. The single solid result of the conference-an agreement to establish a permanent "Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Council"-clearly had Dictator Nasser's blessing. The new council will be headquartered in Cairo, will begin operations on $29,000 contributed by Egypt. The council's ten-man permanent secretariat, which includes representatives...
...discourage. While liquid-fueled rockets are top fashion with amateurs, only a few of them are built. They are too complicated and expensive. But news has got around that respectable rockets can be made out of metal tubing closed at one end and filled with a slow-burning solid fuel...
...advanced program for the Government in World War II to train executives in new production techniques. Out of that early course grew Harvard's famous "case-method" system for business, in which executives grapple with actual problems drawn from the business world. Today Harvard offers a solid fare of executive courses, and many other universities have followed its lead with top management programs, notably M.I.T., Columbia, Stanford, Michigan State, and Rutgers. For his excursion into the halls of ivy, the corporate Big Man on Campus costs his firm anywhere from $25 for a week-long conference...