Word: americanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...American service wife in England with my husband, I feel that curtailing dependent travel abroad is deplorable. It carries the usual perfidious odor of Republican policy. During the past week Secretary of the Treasury Anderson and Under Secretary of State Dillon both stepped off the plane in Bonn with their wives...
...escaped but suffered frostbite so severe in both feet that he was declared unfit for combat. Ending the war as a lieutenant and an instructor at a flak school in southern Bavaria, Strauss was taken prisoner by the U.S. Third Army. It was the break of his life. The Americans made Strauss an interpreter. Then, finding that he was untainted by Nazi ties, they gave him a local-government job. Under American supervision, a new Catholic party was being formed in Bavaria. Joining forces with those who wanted to make it a modern conservative party to include Protestant merchants...
Army. Present strength is 172,000, the 1961 target 210,000 to 220,000. The seven German divisions in NATO, says Strauss, are intermeshed "like a Zipper" along the theoretical line of battle with British, Dutch, American and French divisions. Though the German army already has 3,000 U.S.-built tanks, Strauss plans to replace them with a lighter, faster, lower model to be produced jointly with the Italians and French. The army's other key vehicle, in conformity with the German World War II doctrine that infantrymen should ride straight into combat, is an armored personnel carrier (powered...
...course requirements, Goody noted one on the history of the Communist party, as well as a language requirement most often fulfilled by the study of English. He described the physics and mathematics as "hard," estimating that Russian students cover in five years the same amount of work that an American physics concentrator studies in four years as an undergraduate, together with two more as a graduate student...
Seymour Melman, who is also editor of the publication "Inspection for Disarmament," drew a sharp distinction between disarmament and arms control. Arms control, he said, is a military plan, and it is the "defeatists of American society" who support it those who are "too weak to engage in competition with the Soviet system...