Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate to lead the party is Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 62. Convivial, mellow-voiced Carlo Schmid is by all odds the most articulate Social Democrat advocate of broadening the party's middle-class appeal. He was once an officer in Hitler's army, but in a noncombat occupation job in France, where his command of the language is said to have enabled him to give secret help to the French underground. He is a professor-the most respected title in Germany-and an excellent speaker...
...already among the 2,100,000 drawing "disability compensation" for an in-service injury (75% noncombat), any man who wore the uniform 90 days can at 65 get a full federal pension ($78.75 to $135.45 a month) simply by showing 10% disability (virtually automatic at 65), and proving that his own annual income is less than $1,400 ($2,700 if he has dependents). A wife's income does not disqualify him, nor does any amount of property...
...arguments for farming out more maintenance contracts, particularly for major overhauls, are impressive. Such contracts keep private facilities in readiness for total mobilization, encourage development breakthroughs by spreading know-how. With civilians doing more and more noncombat jobs, the services can concentrate more on battle training, prepare men for fighting instead of repairing typewriters or truck motors...
...staff is more accustomed to pouring its big ideas down its collective hatch at the officers' club. Besides, his men suffer noncombat fatigue from squiring Stateside VIPs around the island (their code word for the chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee is "God"). But with a wobbly assist now and then, Marblehead carries on. To give the home front "the little picture," he promotes what he calls a "Joe Blow of Kokomo" campaign to locate the typical young...
FACING a slash in its budget, the Air Force is already pulling in its belt on noncombat planes. It canceled orders for 420 T36 trainers placed with Beech and Canadair, recalled 37 C-54 transports that it had leased to airlines. The Navy also canceled Temco Aircraft's "secondary source" contract for some 100 F3H-1 Demon jet fighters. McDonnell Aircraft, the primary supplier, was unaffected. Current backlog of all aircraft orders: $18 billion, enough to keep the industry busy for more than two years...