Word: undergo
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...reserve force. McNamara's reasoning: the training and equipment of the Reserve divisions were so inferior that it would probably have required one year after full mobilization to bring them to combat readiness-far too long for the Pentagon's war plans. The National Guard will also undergo drastic surgery: 15 of its divisions will be disbanded. But the transfer of the Reserve to the National Guard will increase Guard strength to 550,000 officers and men in eight ready-to-go divisions and 16 brigades. Through the consolidation, McNamara expects to save $150 million per year...
Supremacy of the West. Since the new nations must undergo a change of heart before they can progress, writes Sinai, the West is wasting its time with economic aid, which is tantamount to "pouring oil into a motor with ruined cylinders." It is also unrealistic to expect them to be democratic. They are so far behind the West that it takes a strong man to pull them up. Such a leader is likely to be an "exceedingly unattractive specimen," obsessed with the idea of modernization and oblivious to the niceties of diplomacy. And since he has to take so many...
...Being an ex-G.I. who served 19 months in Korea, I had to undergo an interrogation from my wife after she read your hooch story. The Rev. Ernst W. Karsten's charge is an exaggeration...
...School holds one contract with AID, for the operation of a secondary school in Nigeria. Edward G. Kaelber '46, assistant dean of the Ed School, said yesterday that Faculty members had been required to undergo security checks for the project but that the contract would not be terminated before it expired...
Died. Eugene Varga, 84, Soviet economist, who in 1946 stunned the Communist world-and discredited himself-by writing that 1) the U.S. would not suffer a severe postwar depression, 2) capitalist nations would not necessarily undergo revolution, and 3) Communism and capitalism could coexist, views that eventually returned Varga to grace after Stalin's death, when the Kremlin revamped its party line; in Moscow...