Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business; he got the Nike program into the field, helped the Army keep for a while its continental defense mission. He became the biggest inspiration for the Army's research work in missiles, protected the missilemakers at the Army's Huntsville Arsenal while they developed the Jupiter C without formal Pentagon authorization...
...becoming Chief of Staff. Certainly his career-had been headed in that direction. Born in Brooklyn, he climbed steadily up the brass rungs of the Army's ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division on Dday. At 37, succeeding Ridgway as boss of the 82nd, he was the youngest division commander in the U.S. Army...
...Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer Ellis A. Johnson; Harvardman Henry A. Kissinger, author of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (TIME, Aug. 26); Colonel George A. Lincoln, West Point social scientist; Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE; Lawyer Frank C. Nash, former Assistant to the Defense Secretary (who died during the study); Laurance S. Rockefeller; Harvard Economist Arthur Smithies; Physicist Edward Teller; Aeronautical Consultant T. F. Walkowicz; Industrialist Carroll L. Wilson, former AEC general manager...
Every Day, in Every Way, It Gets Better and Better, does the Princeton hockey team. It's gotten so much better that it trounced B. C., 8 to 2, in its last outing...
ATHENIAN ADVENTURE, by C. P. (for Clarence Pendleton) Lee (274 pp.; Knopf; $4), shuns the bearded ancient Greeks for the mustached moderns. A onetime professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Author Lee spent a year (1955-56) as a Fulbright professor at the University of Athens. Author Lee has brought home a lot of generalizations-largely accurate-about the Greek character, which form his book's most engaging part. Politeness demands that a Greek be asked three times before he accepts anything. However poor, he never begs, except for cigarettes. No one hawks pictures of the Parthenon...