Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulganin, he redefined the meaning of the world competition and lifted the free world's faith in its cause. At home and abroad, the President moved notably in the second week of the new year to give those who called for it a touch of the style of command he once summed up: "Only strength can cooperate; weakness can only...
...Strategic Air Command's 2,000-odd B-47 medium-jet bombers and hundreds of heavy 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers hold an overwhelming power margin over the U.S.S.R., reported the monthly Missiles and Rockets magazine last week. The proof, said M. and R., is that SAC aircraft are conducting "numerous and continuing" reconnaissance missions over the U.S.S.R., and the Russians have not been able to stop them. "It is true that modern Russian fighters attack our bombers with major advantages of altitude, speed and maneuverability. It is also true that they score hits. But so far no attacks...
...statement. Paratrooper Gavin, the two-fisted boss of the Army's Research and Development section, bluntly revealed his "intuitive" feeling that Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor had reneged on an agreement to make him head of the U.S. Continental Army Command (with a fourth star for his shoulder). Furthermore, said Gavin, the Army had tried to transfer him to command of the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe (the same three stars), a step that was aimed at halting his ringing insistence that the Army's role was being whittled down...
...bargained on, as Secretary Brucker told it, with West Pointer Gavin holding out for the Continental Army Command assignment, an anguished Brucker pleading that Gavin should at least stay on in his present job. At length Gavin promised to "reconsider," for despite his personal ambitions, he still felt strongly for the Army's cause...
Died. Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Sir John Nelson Boothman, 56, winner of the last Schneider Trophy air race (in 1931) by flying at 340.08 m.p.h. (then a record speed) in a Supermarine 56B, director during World War II of photo-reconnaissance for the RAF Coastal Command; in Stanmore, England...