Word: aire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusk fell across Ankara, as smoke from thousands of homes laid a foglike pall over the city, Ike's mission moved toward a high point. He rode out of town again to lay a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum. There he shed his topcoat in the chill evening air, laid a wreath of white and red carnations, stood with head bowed. So many flashbulbs flashed in his face that he seemed a bit blinded. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" he said to a Turkish official as they walked away...
...Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral...
Gates, who has been Deputy Defense Secretary for six months, moved into his new job last week on the run. An hour after taking over, he reversed McElroy's longstanding policy discouraging press conferences by the Air Force, Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems that McElroy did not get around to-plus an even more urgent need to grasp the military possibilities in space. Gates has a scant year before the Eisenhower Administration runs out of time, but if he only improves Pentagon morale and makes overdue decisions, he will surely qualify...
...budget will include funds to get the Air Force started on a program to keep part of its nuclear-bomber force on airborne alert at all times until the missile gap is closed...
Plans call for launching two experimental meteorological satellites containing cloud-scanning television cameras. The first, weighing 250 pounds, is scheduled for a mid-January launching by an Air Force Thor-Able rocket. The other will be sent up later next year...