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Princeton recently received the personal papers of James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. The papers, composing documents, manuscripts, and diaries are in Nassau's Firestone Library.
The Atomic Age. When will such an atomic engine be ready? Last week the Newport News shipyard, which is working on the supercarrier Forrestal, gave a possible hint. It took ads asking for men "interested in a career in atomic energy." It looked as if the shipbuilding company hopes to...
Most of Miles' adult life has been in leisurely pursuit of a doctoral thesis. It began in 1940 after a grounding in political science and Scholastic philosophy at Seton Hall and the Catholic University of America. The Army tapped him a year later and sent him to Jamaica, where he...
That same year, some letter-writing alumni became unhappy aroused when Henry Wallace was invited to make a speech at Harvard. At the time Wallace was busily attacking U.S. foreign policy, Wall Street, Defense Secretary Forrestal, and the Marshall Plan, and some alumni considered Wallace worse than a contagion carrier...
This week the Navy hopes to lay the keel for the second of ten proposed $220 million flush-deck carriers of the Forrestal class. The Navy got the money for the carrier by an end run around the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by pressuring Congress and convincing Defense Secretary Lovett...