Word: commands
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Jupiter & Zeus. Continental Army Command's General Willard G. Wyman contributed a stinging attack against the Defense Department's "arbitrary," "rigid" and "dangerous" ruling that Army missiles must be limited to 200 miles ground to ground and 100 miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced...
Most strident Army performance of the week came from Lieut. General Stanley Mickelson, retiring chief of Army's Air Defense Command. So sharp was Mickelson's original speech that the Defense Department would not let him deliver all of it; the draft, however, had already been distributed to newsmen. Bitterly, the Mickelson text scorned the Air Force, derided the concept of airpower. Said the Army's General Mickelson, echoing a favorite line of the Army's General Gavin: "The Army points the way for America to shed herself of any stigma of the theory of mass...
...begetting a secular science and secular arts, has also incidentally promoted a secular interpretation of state and law." As a result of this secularization, the state has been assigned tasks it cannot properly perform, for the state "depends for its vitality upon a motivation which it cannot by itself command...
After a first-period fumble gave the Irish a touchdown, the Middies took command as if they were scrimmaging with a squad of plebes. Quarterback Tom Forrestal called plays with professional precision; when he needed extra yardage, Fullback Ray ("Tex") Wellborn was always ready to oblige. A tireless transfer student from Rice Institute, Wellborn ran for two touchdowns, caught a Forrestal pass for a third. Final score: 20-6. "I just happened to be following those big horses," said he. "Tom called 'em, I ran 'em, they blocked 'em." Which was a modest way of saying that...
...thoughts are not new and the writing familiar, it does not speak ill of the occasion or the agency which produced them. A magazine which can summon these people to a command performance can perhaps find the talent to keep up its tradition, and, hopefully...