Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...point to know very little about it. Everything was turned over to Vice President Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, who is in charge of Advanced Development Projects. The training unit recruited select U.S. pilots, and presumably they were drilled in the same rigorous survival training as Strategic Air Command pilots. Presumably they got long special training in high-altitude work...
...last week's debate, wrinkled old Ismet Inonu directly rapped Menderes: "Other regimes that have ruled illegally have justified their rule by arguments like yours. Syngman Rhee had an obedient police force, civil service and army in his hand, but you don't even command the loyalty of those forces." By giving a committee summary powers to investigate and punish police and army men, Inonu argued, the Democrats had "inevitably" proclaimed doubts of the officers' loyalties. "Those who seek to establish a coercive regime must believe that the Turkish nation is imbued with less self-respect than...
Looking for a quotation to lead off a book he wrote almost 30 years ago (The Edge of the Sword, a philosophical discussion of command and warfare), a French army major named Charles de Gaulle found just what he wanted in Hamlet...
When Dowling took command. City Investing had assets of $11,000,000 and a net worth of $8,000,000. Today, the assets have multiplied fivefold, and the profits are better than $1,000,000 a year. City Investing owns five of Broadway's top theaters, and unlike their dilapidated Shubert neighbors, they are showplaces in themselves. Dowling does not lease his theaters; he operates them. "We knew the product." he says, "and we wanted to see it the best in the city-in decor, air conditioning, treatment of customers-so we had to become operators." A devoted theatergoer...
...decision was made on a case that began in 1956 when rambunctious Ben Heineman, lawyer turned railroader (TIME, Dec. 15, 1958), stepped into command of the money-losing Chicago & North Western. Heineman found that some telegraph operators at one-man stations scattered along North Western's 9,288-mile route worked as little as 15 minutes a day, yet drew a full day's wage. Heineman decided to eliminate almost 200 of the stations, got an O.K. from regulatory commissions in four states...