Word: tech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven technical services (ordnance, quartermaster, engineers, signal, chemical, medical and transportation), which over the decades had grown into tight little empires with their own budgets, overlapping research programs-and, all too often, conflicting aims. Last week, firmly prodded by McNamara, the Army proposed a plan that could streamline the tech services and thereby modernize the basic structure of the entire Army...
...proposal would create a Materiel Development and Logistic Command, bossed by a four-star general, which would centralize all the procurement, logistics, and research and development programs now operated by each tech service. A new Office of Personnel Operations would take over the assignment and career planning of nearly all officers and enlisted men, functions that the tech services now claim separately for themselves. A Combat Developments Command would be established to develop the doctrines for a versatile modern Army able to fight jungle actions against guerrillas or nuclear battles on fields covering hundreds of miles. After the reform...
Predictably, some of the current tech service chiefs are unhappy about the threat to their fiefdoms. But the initial reaction of Congress was favorable to the scheme, which also has the wholehearted blessing of Commander in Chief John Kennedy. Under terms of the Defense Reorganization Act of 1958, the proposal will go into effect automatically if it is not disapproved by the Armed Services Committees of the House and the Senate within 30 days. Even if one or both of the committees do reject the plan, it will still become effective if the House and Senate do not second...
...huge, rich state university? Last week the National Merit Scholarship Corp. told what it had learned when it asked 21,000 high school senior boys and 14.000 girls, all in the top 2% of their classes, to name their choices. Results, in order, for boys: Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Cal Tech., Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Rice. For girls: Stanford, Radcliffe, Cornell, Wellesley, California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, Duke, Smith, Barnard, Oberlin...
This year again is a puzzler. After winning six in a row the Crimson lost the final of the Washington University tournament to Valparaiso, 68-66, and then defeated Carnegie Tech on the way East for a 7-3 record...