Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threading the black Defense Department limousine through Washington's morning traffic, Chauffeur Clarence Mason wheeled smartly up to the Porter Street house in the capital's Cleveland Park section. Mason's assignment: to pick up Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles and deliver him to a 7:45 a.m. television date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet...
...Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list of possible successors: Donald Quarles, eminently suited with his scientific and administrative background and his six years of Defense Department experience...
...with the ear of Charlie Wilson and later of Neil McElroy, courteous, forceful Donald Quarles made enemies. He refused to favor old Air Force friends, chopped their budget as severely as the Army's and Navy's. From Quarles's office came the orders for cutbacks and stretch-outs in defense contracts, for a slowdown on wild-blue-yonder research, for an end to competitive missile programs-all to keep the Defense budget within bounds while the U.S. maintained a weapons "sufficiency...
Furthermore, Cooper had an answer for Steelworkers Union President David Mc Donald's claim that a wage hike carved out of profits or dividends would add new purchasing power to the economy. The stockholders, said Cooper, need the money worse than the workers. He cited a 1953 survey which showed that 53% of U.S. Steel individual stockholders had an average annual income from all sources that was actually less than the average annual income of the Steelworkers...
...first singles match is the only one to have a very clear favorite, but even here an upset is a definite possibility. Yale's Donald Dell is, by reputation, the best collegiate tennis player in the East, while Crimson captain Ned Weld has performed rather poorly in his last two outings. But Weld was magnificent a week ago in beating Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn, and if he is that sharp today, Dell may be in for lots of trouble...