Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II Officer Schriever rose from captain to colonel, flew 63 missions chiefly as a B-17 pilot in the Pacific, rose through varied air-logistics jobs to command the advanced echelon of Far East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing...
...missilemen contemplate Ben Schriever, a tomorrow's man who often runs his command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever...
...served as aide in Panama to Brigadier General George H. Brett, and courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg, N. Mex. "I learned a lot about command that year," he said. "I learned never to put out a rule that is unenforceable. I learned that it's important to get the staff on my side, and if you earned their loyalty, they were on your side. And I learned to show an interest in everything that...
...back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab military command in Cairo...
Issued in regimental lots from the Pentagon last week were reports about impending changes in the top command of the U.S. armed forces. The rumors varied in detail, but nearly all agreed that 1) Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining, 59, will become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Admiral Arthur Radford's term expires in August, and 2), Twining's replacement will be Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Thomas White, 55, a skilled Pentagon hand since 1948. Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay...