Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twists. In Pentagon thinking, the new need is for a lean, fully airborne, highly flexible but fully coordinated unit-capable of rapierlike attack, swift dispersal, and bludgeon riposte under any conditions. On paper, the new 101st seems to fit the bill. With a complement of 11,486 men, it is approximately one-third smaller than its two older sisters (the 82nd at Fort Bragg, the 11th at Augsburg, Germany). But it is in its mobility and organization that the 101st provides its novelties...
...geisha may be disappearing with the swift-changing status of the Japanese woman. But whether she prove phoenix or fossil, the geisha has found a compassionate historian in Author Yamata, a writer who knows how to highlight her heroines against the backdrop of theatrical restaurants and teahouses through whose sliding bamboo panels these sad gay ladies of Japan move to their discreet, historic and bittersweet rendezvous...
...Vicious Turn. Disillusionment was swift and savage. In a full day of talking to "customers" in his suite, Harry Truman got only two half-vote delegates to switch. With the Democrats who really counted, Truman got nowhere. Even as he was going up to Truman's suite, New Jersey's Bob Meyner announced that he would have no part of a favorite-son candidacy. And Frank Lausche (who refused to campaign for Truman in 1948) did not visit Harry until after he had promised Stevenson's managers that he would throw his Ohio support to Adlai...
...swift, accurate camera has superceded such labored reconstructions, as photographs of the Andrea Doria disaster show...
Cover-Up v. Correction. The British have spent huge sums on aircraft, e.g., the Bristol Brabazon, that were abandoned before they ever went into operation (TIME, Dec. 19). And many combat planes, such as the Supermarine Swift fighter (cost: some $60 million), were delivered months or years late, then proved so inadequate that they had to be withdrawn from service. The British, charged Waterton, are "trailing behind America and Russia," which have both produced supersonic fighters in quantity and have bombers in service "twice as big as our largest." Through lethargy and bad planning, Britain's planemakers have missed...