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Every cherished future plan of the U.S. Army revolves around a time-honored concept known as the mobilization base. The mobilization base consists of a cadre of regular troops, a stockpile of arms and ammunition, stand-by production facilities, National Guard and Reserve units, etc.-all of which are geared to help the Army expand to 100 divisions in less than two years after war comes...
Discussion Postponed. Last week, well aware that the sacred mobilization-base concept is due to go out the window as deterrent costs rise in future budget planning, the Army fired another resounding round in the running Pentagon war (TIME, June 4) as the generals and the colonels dug in for a convulsive last stand. Leaked to the Army's dependable friend, able New York Times Correspondent Anthony Leviero, was inside information that Admiral Radford proposes to cut the U.S. armed forces from 2,800,000 to 2,000,000 in the next four years. The Army and Navy, said...
...schools, few have won quite so controversial a reputation as Professor Theodore Brameld of New York University's School of Education. At 52 he is one of the chief spokesmen for an extraordinary doctrine called reconstructionism−a philosophy that wants to revolutionize the world's whole concept of education. In his latest book (Toward a Reconstructed Philosophy of Education; Dryden; $4.50), readers can not only learn what reconstructionism is, but just what would happen to education if its adherents got their...
...dangerous weakness in the American character is impatience. "To the Russian, time is not a very important concept. The free nations lose their patience too easily they want to see success too quickly...
Though the concept of France as a "link" was promptly and publicly disavowed by Mollet, Pineau continued to plump for greater trust in Russia, with more fervor and eloquence than any other statesman in Western Europe. Last week, on the eve of his departure for the U.S. (his twelfth visit since the war, his first as Foreign Minister), Pineau said that it is wrong to wonder if Soviet leaders sincerely desire peace. "In diplomacy," he observed, "facts are more important than intentions." He went on to argue that the West must take immediate steps to "liquidate" the cold war. Then...