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...Gavin's Retirement Approved...
...missile technology and loose handling of missile problems by the Pentagon have given new currency to an old idea, most recently and vigorously expressed by the Air Force's retired Lieut. General James H. Doolittle and the Army's research and development chief, Lieut. General James Gavin (TIME, Dec. 23). Both point to the weakness of the present organization of the Defense Department, which in effect sets U.S. military policy by compromise, and ends up letting each separate service go pretty much its own way. Doolittle and Gavin suggest that an integrated staff of military careermen standing above...
Senate to Investigate Gavin...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, (D-Tex.) said today Senate investigators will inquire into the possibility that "administration rubber hose tactics" figured in Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin's move to retire from the Army...
Johnson, who heads the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, said Gavin will be questioned about his decision to quit as chief of the Army research and development division working on missiles and earth satellites...