Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deny that technical aid alone is no panacea. Clearly, military forces are needed to counter opposing armies--whether in Korea, Iran or Germany. But technical aid is still the best weapon the U.S. has to demonstrate to the uncommitted peoples of free Asia and Africa that democracy can produce new roads and more rice. In a period of "competitive coexistence," the Administration should realize that technical aid is one of its most potent weapons...
...Mary McCarthy's is the country of the little magazine, the off-beat college and the mobile-hung menage.-It is more remorselessly competitive than the business world to which it feels superior. It is a world always at war, and Mary McCarthy's far-from-secret weapon is to write her enemies-and friends-into her books. Despite her demurrers, the game of "spot-the-model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct...
After four days of testimony. Subcommittee Chairman Chet Holafield summed up: "Undoubtedly there was waste in this program, as there is in any development of a new plane or weapon. I've seen no evidence of fraud or improper action . . . Mistakes made were made honestly under the pressure of the Korean emergency. Navy officers simply were caught in a gamble . . . to push ahead in search of a plane equal to the MIG, or wait until assured their new plane would be a success...
...time can be devoted to public relations, morale and production-boosting projects having little to do with religion; others worry that industrial chaplains steal away parishioners from established local pastors. But by far the biggest complaint comes from union leaders, who fear that management will use religion as a weapon against labor and to talk down justified complaints and demands. Said the Protestant Christian Century: "The first danger in a company-paid chaplaincy is that the chaplain may become a company-paid errand boy for bolstering company policy, pacifying complaints, playing on religious predilections to keep workers happy. The church...
...going to determine who can be trusted to work in the areas of weapon technology where there are secrets to be kept? By the very nature of the problem criteria cannot be laid down and adopted once and for all. Conditions change. When a war is on and lives are at stake we are, oddly enough, willing to take more of a risk in order to get the job done quickly. People who served competently during the war were disqualified later from classified work. The very term "risk" itself implies a danger not fully defined...