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Lieut. General Frank F. Everest, 52, deft right hand to Nate Twining (as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations) gains a star, becomes head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Blunt, tobacco-chewing West Pointer Frank Everest is the Air Force's outstanding global Ops (Operations) brain, commanded a heavy-bomber group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a Pentagon planner. After duty in Alaska and with the Atomic Energy Commission, Everest, like Anderson, led the Fifth Air Force in Korea, came home to join the Air Force's inner circles...
...real make-or-break challenge lay just ahead. Old Guard Republicans and Southern Democrats alike were waiting with sharpened knives for the $3.8 billion foreign aid program. Whether the President's foreign aid speech this week would dull these knives and blunt the attack was the next big question. On the answer hung nothing less than the political prestige-and world stature-of Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...announcement of the arrival of the Matador squadron served a twofold purpose: 1) it provided a welcome boost in morale for Chiang's government (the English-language China News reported itself "greatly cheered" at the news), and 2) it served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow...
Beneath those blunt words-part of a quarter-page advertisement spread through the newspapers in Mississippi's capital city of Jackson one day last week-was the signature of Mississippi's Governor James Plemmon Coleman. With something of a jolt, Mississippians realized that capable, 43-year-old J. P. Coleman, who had worked surprising modernizing reforms during his first year in office without open legislative battles with the state's mossbacks (TIME, March 3), was set to fight right down to the line for a project that he considers fundamental: rewriting the 1890 state constitution, primarily...
Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower Plan aid, the young King wrote a blunt letter to Premier Nabulsi: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people." He demanded that Nabulsi purge his Cabinet of its three most...