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...Hell's fire." said Dwight D. Eisenhower as he shook the hand of Colonel Keith Ware, who once commanded 1st Battalion. 15th Infantry Regiment. "I used to command that outfit myself." The President was trading service talk about the ist Battalion, 15th Infantry and about other outfits with each of 216 Medal of Honor holders, who came to see him in the White House's rose garden on Memorial Day before they all went out to the burial of the unknown servicemen from World War II and Korea. Meeting an aging vet from the Philippine Scouts, he said...
Curtice insisted that carmaking costs had risen faster over the past decade than wholesale prices of G.M. cars. Old Social ist Reuther damned the automakers' pricing policies as "greedy" and "irresponsible," called their profits "fantastic," urged creation of a federal fact-finding agency to decide in advance whether price increases, in or out of the auto industry, are "justified." Equally far apart were the Curtice and Reuther economic prescriptions. Curtice urged federal tax cuts "across the board" to jack up spending by business firms and consumers. Reuther called for big wage raises to boost consumer purchasing power...
...civilian team mustered by McElroy last week to serve in effect as management consultants - the Air Force's General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Arthur Radford and Army General Omar Bradley, Twining's predecessors as J.C.S. chairmen; William C. Foster, Washington industrial ist (Olin Mathieson Corp.) and former Deputy Defense Secretary (1951-53); Charles Allerton Coolidge, Boston lawyer and former Assistant Defense Secretary (1951-52). (Absent member: Nelson A. Rockefeller, part-sponsor of the Rockefeller Report, which recommended an overhauling of Pentagon organization -TIME...
...million industry to make Atlas is already in pilot production; the SAC teams that will fire Atlas are already in training at Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever's headquarters in California. The Atlas' first field unit was recently activated as the ist ballistic Missile Division, U.S.A.F. The argument between the bomber generals and the missile generals has been overrated. Says Bomber General LeMay: '.'We're not wedded to the bomber in this organization. We're wedded to getting the job done. The better the tool, the better we like it." Says...
...literature, swaggering Dean Moriarty is perhaps closest in his amorality to a character created by Petronius Arbiter in the ist century A.D.-the rascally Encolpius, who lived by his wits in Nero's fat and frightened time. In contemporary terms, Moriarty seems even closer to a prison psychosis that is a variety of the Ganser Syndrome.* Its symptoms, as described by one psychiatrist, sound like a playback from Kerouac's novel: "The patient exaggerates his mood and his feelings: he 'lets himself go' and gets himself into a highly emotional state. He is uncooperative, refuses...