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New Faces. For him, it was a week of beginnings and endings. He posed with his official family for the last Cabinet picture of his first Administration, giving the public one of its infrequent looks at men like Donaldson, Brannan and Sawyer. Of the men grouped around Truman, only one...
Almost any night last week a small, trim man with a boxer's nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight...
In his first annual report last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Secretary Forrestal agreed. Wrote he: ". . . It is the responsibility of the press, radio and other agencies which gather and disseminate news, not to publish information which would violate the national security . . . I agree, that in peacetime no type of [official...
One guarded paragraph, worded in the Stiffest gobbledygook, set off a loud crackle of scientific and near-scientific speculation last week. In his report on unification of the services, Secretary of Defense Forrestal said:
In practice, air friction cannot be ignored. No sizable projectile has ever approached the necessary speed (about five miles a second) which would whirl it around the earth in about 100 minutes. Even the latest rockets do not carry enough fuel to get well above the atmosphere (some 500 miles...