Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chicago and nominated a man who said the nation could not exist half slave and half free. In 1960, said Keynoter Judd to this week's Republican Convention, the gravest issue is once again human slavery-"this time not men enslaved by other men but, far more complex and dangerous, masses of men enslaved by governments." And since Americans know "deep down in our hearts" that the whole world cannot long endure half slave and half free, the nation's purpose in the 19605 must be to continue to strengthen freedom at home and weaken the slavemasters abroad...
...broad survey of U.S. military strength for President Eisenhower, a blue-ribbon committee chaired by (then) Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr. recommended the construction of a fleet ballistic missile to be fired from a submarine. It was a suggestion that set up as complex a problem as ever faced the combined talents of U.S. science and technology. It called for a missile that could live in water, the earth's atmosphere, space and the re-entry zone. It demanded a method for handling dangerous fuels and explosives in a confined shipboard environment. Launching problems-tough...
Article of War. Pound for pound, as the ships* grew and their equipment was installed, they became the most complex vehicles ever built for the sea. And by the time George Washington was ready for launching last December (just as the PERT charts predicted), the men who had been chosen to manage her fantastic hardware were as impressive as the ship herself. Commander James Butler Osborn, the crewcut, square-jawed skipper who looks like a football player, talks like a Marine drill sergeant and thinks like a well-trained engineer, seemed almost in love with his exquisite command. "This ship...
...ought to be used to terrible-tempered Jim Carey's language by now. During the 1958 contract reopener, Carey kept the air blue, and G.E. negotiators walked out. Before the talks began this time, Carey confided to reporters: "People say I have a Napoleonic complex, but Napoleon was a softy compared to Carey...
...Force's vast logistic and strategic problems is tiny (1959 sales: $3,400,000), little known Technical Operations Inc., whose product is what might be called "the big think." Tech Ops is one of a growing number of new companies that provide theoretical solutions to the enormously complex problems now confronting business and Government...