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Testifying next day, blunt-spoken Robert C. Sprague, Massachusetts electrical manufacturer, co-chairman of the 1957 Gaither Committee study of U.S. defenses (which the Administration refuses to make public-TIME, Dec. 2, 1957), declared that the U.S. must be awakened to the scope of the overall Russian threat. "There is only one man in the United States that can do this effectively, and that is the President," said Sprague, a Republican. "I believe, and this is a personal belief, that the danger is more serious than the President has expressed himself to the American public...
...major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save many millions of lives and perhaps make the difference between defeat...
Another important injury, right fullback Pete Bower's broken leg, opens a serious hole in the Princeton defense. Tom Urbanick, one of the Ivy's best fullbacks, will start on the left, while Jim Gaither will open in the nets...
...yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...Bank. Gaither, who helped give the foundation its present shape and direction, announced last May that he would return to his San Francisco law practice. Still in office as the foundation's guiding force and chief executive: able President Henry Heald...