Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain. He is helping to work out the details of the agreement whereby the U.S. will send arms to bolster Saudi Arabia while also getting a new five-year lease on Dhahran, the crucial Saudi Arabian air base from which the U.S. Air Force's nuclear bombers can command the southern reaches of the Communist empire. Everywhere, Radford argues publicly and privately for the alltime-peacetime-high defense and foreign military assistance budget of $43.3 billion (58? in every U.S. tax dollar) designed to give muscle to U.S. commitments to 43 friendly nations as an essential element...
...Academy hops that his class Lucky Bag terms him "a pink-cheeked Apollo." After graduation and four years in battleships, Raddy got into the Navy's second postwar aviation class at Pensacola, Fla., won his wings in the fall of 1920, moved steadily upward to command the crack Fighter Squadron I aboard the new carrier Saratoga...
...three briefcases of Sunday homework to take a drive with his wife Marianna (which is rarely), he must first outline his exact route to a duty officer, so that troopers can be deployed to bring him back in a hurry, if necessary. A crew chief in the Strategic Air Command is subject to the same kind of discipline...
...survey Radford announced that the Navy could up its training program from 300 pilots a year to 25,000-and proceeded during the next 16 months to push through just such an expansion. Few were surprised when the Navy promoted him to rear admiral and sent him out to command one of the newly forming carrier attack groups in the Pacific -even though Radford had never commanded a ship...
...number one man, Juan Hermosilla, who will probably be out of action for the rest of the year for M.I.T. His replacement at first singles was able to take two games from Crimson captain Ben Heckscher, but Heckscher was not putting out a full effort and was clearly in command of the match...