Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...again we hear spurious assertions that America's defenses are weak, that her economic expansive force can be sustained only by federal spending, that her educational and health efforts are deficient. In this kind of preachment political morticians are exhibiting a breast-beating pessimism in the American system...
Polaris & Minuteman. The decision to bet on the future of the Polaris and Minuteman systems, and to put up with a missile gap in the meantime as a calculated risk, entails a responsibility to push Polaris and Minuteman as fast as possible in order to shorten the duration of the gap. But the 1961 defense budget provides for starts on only three Polaris submarines (nine have been authorized by Congress). And although the U.S. is depending upon Minuteman to close the missile gap in 1963-64, the Administration is doing next to nothing to assure that when Minuteman is ready...
...grim power struggle in Milwaukee last week, the State Democratic Administrative Committee changed the scoring system for Wisconsin's crucial Democratic primary election next April, and thereby cut the chances of clean-cut victory either for Jack Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey. After two hours of furious debate in a Kaiser-Knickerbocker Hotel suite, the committee's 26 members voted 14-12 to change the rules. Under the new system, each of Wisconsin's ten congressional districts will receive 2½ votes at the national convention, with five delegate-at-large votes going to the statewide winner. Under...
Tender Little Bull. Caracas-born Simon ("The Liberator") Bolivar was the country's first military dictator; he said that "as long as our fellow citizens do not acquire the talents and virtues which distinguish our brothers to the north, a radical democratic system, far from being good for us, will bring ruin upon us." When he died in 1830, Bolivar left the country to a long line of strongmen. In 1908 Juan Vicente Gómez, "Tyrant of the Andes," began a 27-year reign. That same year, in the poverty-ridden town of Guatire, 40 miles from Caracas...
Between the years when Sir Isaac Pitman and John R. Gregg devised their competing shorthand systems (as any stenographer knows, Gregg's is now predominant in the U.S.), a man named Andrew Graham developed a Pitmanish shorthand scheme that resembled, as much as any script, Arabic. By the time he was 17, Woodrow Wilson had all but mastered the Graham system, in 1874 dashed off a note in Graham to Graham. For the rest of his life, Wilson kept improving his Graham to a degree where present historians almost wished for a shorthand Rosetta stone that would provide...