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LITTLE ROCK--Paratroopers from the Army's famed 101st Airborne Division took up stations around Central High School Tuesday night, scene of disorders resulting from efforts to integrate Negro pupils in the school. The force, said to number 500, split--one group going to the high school and the other to Little Rock's National Guard armory. A number of Negro paratroopers were seen in convey trucks...
Command Decisions. Ike was in no mood to bargain, and he took pains at his 101st press conference to make clear that Dulles would stay on the job. The critics, he noted, talked only generally about blunders and lack of leadership, but made "no constructive proposals for what even should have been done with the benefit of hindsight." As for Dulles, he had been training for his job ever since his grandfather was Secretary of State, and "during those years he studied and acquired a wisdom and experience and knowledge that I think is possessed by no man-no other...
...brigade divisions would give way to streamlined, speedier, three-regiment units. Last week the old soldiers of even the wartime triangular divisions received a shock. Adjusting to atomic strategy and tactics, the Army announced a complete reorganization of 18 active divisions along the lines of its 19th, the "pentomic" 101st Airborne Division...
...predecessor General Ridgway, doubt that it is large enough. In the light of their statements, present Defense Department plans to cut the Army further are alarming. The mobile, "self-sufficient" divisions, able to move anywhere in the world on short notice, have been slow in developing. These divisions (the 101st Airborne is one) are an example of what a balanced force should include...
More important, although the 101st was designed for airlifting, there are still general doubts about where its transport planes are coming from. Last May Air Force General Otto P. Weyland, boss of the Tactical Air Command, told a Senate investigating subcommittee that under present capabilities, the Air Force could not move a combat-loaded division from the U.S. to the Far East in less than "a week or ten days." The implication: the transports needed to move the 101st in trigger-quick time may simply not be available...