Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JUST as the Eisenhower Administration and the Air Force were pretty well convinced that the U.S. could see itself safely through the "missile gap" of the early 1960s with Strategic Air Command bombers and a slender intercontinental missile program, Air Force missilemen turned up in Washington last week with a warning and a plan. The warning: reliance on plane-borne SAC will not surely give the U.S. the deterrent it needs. The plan: step up production of the well-tested Atlas missile. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Atlas...
...office. Chris Herter, his 6-ft. 5-in. body bent by arthritis (he has recently been using a wheelchair and aluminum half crutches to get around), walked down the steps unaided to be met by Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, his next in command during the period of Foster Dulles' incapacity...
...fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal cords. After fingerprinting, the body is turned over to relatives...
...Force popped a promotion list into the senatorial hopper, then waited for the what-for. On the roster: drawling Cinemactor and Reserve Colonel James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, once refused promotion to brigadier general two years ago (TIME, Sept. 2, 1957) after Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, herself a reserve lieutenant colonel with an administrative assistant hopeful of a star-sized Pentagon mobilization assignment, sounded off on War Hero Stewart's skimpy training record. Promising nothing, Colonel Smith still seemed a trifle dubious: "I don't think reserve promotions ought to be taken lightly as they...
Because of Dulles' peculiar administrative habit of running the State Department as a one-man show, no one can completely act as a substitute Secretary carrying out Dulles' policies and attitudes in every respect. Even if there were such a person, an Acting Secretary cannot command the prestige necessary to be an able forceful representative of the United States in the Big Four conference on Germany this spring...