Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts to strengthen Defense Department control over the separate services have, in fact, served mostly to make the office of the Secretary of Defense itself an unwieldy, sprawling compromise of an organization, with nine assistant secretaries, about 300 committees and 2,151 staffers. Far from working toward unification of forces, the Defense Secretary's office has virtually become a fourth service. It sits uneasily atop the civilian hierarchies of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with the power of military decision farther and farther removed from trained military men. Results: wasted money, duplicated effort, lost time and, above...
...battles. But then comes the moment when he walks into a secret Pentagon room, sits down at a table with the three other members of the J.C.S., and puts on his other hat. As a member of the Joint Chiefs, he is expected to help in taking collective action toward a U.S. war plan that can stand as a guide to budgeting, priorities and weapons systems...
...jungles and Asian market places, in European town squares and American suburbs strained skyward for a glimpse of Russia's tiny moons. In 1957, under the orbits of a horned sphere and a half-ton tomb for a dead dog, the world's balance of power lurched and swung toward the free world's enemies...
Ingratiatingly, alluringly, the Russians last week used the tools of trade and culture to turn Latin American eyes and aspirations away from the U.S., toward the U.S.S.R. The response from both Brazil and Chile gave the Communists cause to take heart...
...West Indies nation moves toward next March's election of a federal legislature and formation of its first government, the eleven main islands are gradually getting more freedom from Britain in local affairs. This week a big helping of self-government goes to Barbados, sugargrowing "little England" of the West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...