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Bounding up the steps of the river entrance to the Pentagon, Four-Star General Curtis LeMay, 50, hard-boiled boss of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, rolled his ever-present panatela around in his mouth, fingered the new mustache he had grown in his recent big-game hunt in Africa with Arthur Godfrey, and mulled the reasons for this sudden command appearance before the top Pentagon brass. The scuttlebutt had told: he was to be offered the job of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Curt LeMay took three days to think over the idea. Last week...
...khaki for the Army's General Maxwell Taylor, blue for the Air Force's General Nathan Twining, navy blue for the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke, brown for the Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate, and a nonsymbolic black for the fifth man-the quiet man -four-star Admiral Arthur William Radford, 60, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military adviser to the President. Before these five military officers also lies an awesome agenda. It can sweep across the types and size of next year's H-bomb production, this year...
...Retired four-star General Lucius DuBignon Clay, 59, onetime (1947-49) U.S. Military Governor in Germany, since board chairman of Continental Can Co., old and trusted Ike friend, who probably would resist the job if it were offered...
Since when does a Moscow gallery employ four-star generals as museum guards, as described in the footnote to the photo of Indonesia's Sukarno [Sept. 17 ]? That ''non-destalinized" personage in the uniform of a Red army general must have won many a battle with art patrons in his capacity as museum guard to have earned four stars, the Order of the Red Banner and four rows of ribbons. I wonder...
...Annapolis, four-star Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week exhorted graduating midshipmen to avoid making "a fetish of tradition" and to remember always that the Navy, Army and Air Force "must think as a team, work as a team, and, when necessary, fight as a team." At Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker overflowed with tributes to the "magnificent Navy" and the "great Air Force with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones...