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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Point of Exhaustion. A thoroughly honest man, Bradley would no doubt agree that such questions were embarrassingly hard to answer. But there was a more formidable question. What did the situation require...
...exact answer could be given. Since Russia held the initiative, it depended on what Russia would do next. The argument was being made that Korea might actually be the beginning of Russia's all-out assault on the Western democracies and that nothing less than total U.S. mobilization was adequate to the crisis...
Creeping Costs. How many tanks, how many bazookas, how many recoilless rifles, how many planes, how many bombs, how many carriers, how many cargo ships, were questions not even the experts could answer yet. The needs could not yet be measured in dollars & cents. On a rush basis, costs would be high. The overall cost of limited mobilization and stepped-up procurement would certainly leave the country with a total defense bill more comparable to the $18 billion the Defense Department had asked for two years...
...first thing, says the dean, is to ditch class discussion and stick to the lecture method. This places the professor right off in a position of advantage and makes it unnecessary for him to answer questions. "It helps, too, if you avoid the practice of organizing your lecture's," for this will give the impression that "yours is the brilliant, untrammeled mind, of genius...
What is atomic energy? How is a hydrogen bomb set off? Can the bombs be controlled? A new four-part documentary show called The Quick and the Dead (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC), with Bob Hope playing the role of inquisitive taxpayer, last week began to answer these questions. "We picked Hope," says 34-year-old Writer-Producer Fred Friendly, "because we figured people would think that if he could understand it, anyone could...