Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the needs for dispersal of Strategic Air Command bases and improvement of the nation's radar-warning networks...
...Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White (TIME, Nov. 25) served public notice that the Strategic Air Command is firmly and officially in the ballistic-missile business. The Air Force has decided, said General White, to shift "responsibility for the initial operational capability phase of both the IRBM and ICBM programs" from the Air Research and Development Command...
...much thicker than the lead in a pencil, and if in Ike's case this was already narrowed by arteriosclerosis, a tiny clot would be enough to shut down the flow. That a bigger artery branch was not involved was shown by Ike's keeping full command of functions controlled by adjacent brain areas...
...Maryland's goose-hunting season, federal game wardens swooped down on an Eastern Shore passel of 15 hunters, discovered that the surrounding corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...
...example of the challenge facing parents is Tigrett Industries' fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes with eight pages of instructions. Fairchild's transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland...