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Sensitive Dissenter. The age of sophistication raises an eyebrow at any such Hairbreadth Harry interpretation of history. But the U.S.'s awakening to the twin perils of Communist intentions and Communist scientific capabilities has been a hairbreadth affair. Like his late great friend, James Forrestal, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with...
Cravings & Aspirations. It has changed quite a bit on the surface. From his comfortable office in No. 1 Nassau Hall, Dodds has kept his administrative machinery humming with apparent effortlessness. He has tripled his endowment to $73 million, nearly doubled his faculty to 380, put up the great Firestone Library...
"Nulle Bastardo Carborundum." Less than half an hour after his brief swearing-in ceremony, Wilson walked with assurance into his vast, flag-draped Pentagon office looking out over the Potomac River. Sitting down behind a walnut desk that once belonged to General "Black Jack" Pershing, he stared around at the...
These were sweeping decisions, some of which will continue to affect the U.S. people and their allies for years to come. In many ways they proved an organizational grasp of the workings of the Pentagon which none of Engine Charlie's predecessors in office had ever shown. To all...
They turned for guidance, as if by instinct, to Assistant Secretary Wilfred McNeil, a handsome, blue-eyed Iowan whose fiscal talents won him a reserve rear admiral's rank during World War II. McNeil was brought in by Forrestal to supervise the defense budget, and had done the job...