Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...democracies have disappointingly little to offer in opposition. Our State Department is stepping up its program rapidly and beginning to adapt its methods to local conditions. But unless a bigger and better job is done, by U.S. private enterprise as well as government, there is clear danger that we shall again, as in China, lose the war of ideas - and the support of the illiterate millions whom we have not yet learned to talk to in ways they understand." Cordially yours...
...about the contents of Forrestal's private papers, it belabored the backbiters and columnists responsible, as Writer Huie put it, for the "destruction" of the late Defense Secretary. Huie, whose book, The Case Against the Admirals, was an air-power fanatic's assault against Forrestal's program for a balanced defense force, now lauded Forrestal as the only Administration leader who had fully realized the threat of Russia and knew how to fight the Reds. Wrote Huie: "In December, 1947, when France was paralyzed by a general transportation strike, Forrestal summoned his most trusted friends to Washington...
...Methodist church leaders took time out to denounce the campaign as "a new low" in advertising. Asked one embattled parent in the Nashville Banner: "Should I . . . go into debt ... in order that my children can see highlights of football, an ancient fourth-rate movie followed by a full program of wrestling...
From what it learned from its contacts, Yale's officials concluded that the present system of selection by grades will stay in force until March when a coalition of Southerners and Midwesterners will push a Universal Military Training program through Congress. The probable term of service, the Yale experts think will be 18 months since that is the maximum period that the legislators are likely to vote...
Like any other college, Yale, which already last year suffered a deficit, would encounter a temporary drop in enrollment if a full scale draft program went into effect. It has been CODAM's assignment to devise plans which would blunt the ill effects of a draft...