Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely condemned in Britain on first hearing. Washington had plenty of notice about its ally's latest plans. Britain's Harold Macmillan told Dulles last December at a NATO meeting that the United Kingdom would have to trim its defense budget and worldwide military commitments. Defense Minister Duncan Sandys gave further details during his successful missile-shopping trip to Washington in February; Macmillan gave a full explanation to President Eisenhower during their Bermuda conference...
...deed was done in a lucid, ten-page White Paper on Defense, written by 49-year-old Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys, who called it "the biggest change in military policy ever made in normal times." Under the plan, the body strength of Britain's armed forces will be cut in half by 1962. Its battleships will be scrapped, its fighter planes junked, its overseas garrisons drastically reduced. New reliance of the British forces: guided missiles carrying nuclear warheads...
...First? In Nottingham. England, Prison Commissioner Duncan Fairn complained that girls who wait outside infamous Dartmoor Prison to see prisoners are giving the place a bad name...
Robert R. Duncan, a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee, recently outlined some of the long-range plans for City redevelopment. He listed a series of subcommittees at work on such varied problems as traffic, off-street parking, neighborhood rehabilitation, economic development and community facilities...
Frederick C. Packard Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking, will officiate. Judges are Emerson College President Justin McKinley, State Senator Charles Innes, and the Reverend Duncan Howlett of the First Church, Boston...