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...into the Middle East within 72 hours began just before 2 o'clock one morning last week. Red-alert telephones jangled at the bedsides of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps' Randolph Pate. The word from the Pentagon duty officers: the government of Iraq had been overthrown. The anticipation-it was almost an assumption...
Though no businessmen like layoffs, they have found that careful pruning in the right places need not damage overall efficiency. Dallas' Dresser Industries, for example, discovered that it could do just as good a job in its oil well supply business with 5% less clerical help. Los Angeles' Garrett Corp. shows no loss of efficiency even though it laid off 1,200 of its 11,000-man work force, has also lopped a full 10% to 20% from executive salaries and cut out many a frill. "A lot of the boys don't like riding air coach...
...complete story of General Thomas Dresser White required that TIME talk at length to the Air Force generals who make plans and decisions for White's global striking force. But fast-moving airmen are not always easy to corner. The Washington Bureau's Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha...
Says General Thomas Dresser White, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force: "The very real ability of our long-range bomber force is understood by the Kremlin. The Russians' understanding of this primary military truth has caused them to postpone their aggressive plans until such time as they might be able to alter the balance of power in their favor...
Herpetology & St. John's. The man who bosses today's jet and missile Air Force was born in Walker, Minn, in 1901-just two years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. His maternal great-grandfather was Charles Dresser, the Episcopal minister who performed the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His father, John Chanler White, an Episcopal minister of Springfield, Ill. and later a bishop, encouraged Tommy to go to church once weekly, to join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake...