Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff is a sort of command-by-committee system (Gavin later emphasized that he was not talking about the individual competence of the present chiefs) and is not enough. Said Jim Gavin: "He [McElroy] needs more advice than the Joint Chiefs of Staff give him. I think really what is needed now is a competent military staff of senior military people working directly for the Secretary of Defense. I would have them take over the functions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I would have the military staff organized to handle operations, plans, intelligence, and in fact...
...system"-which conjures up images of Prussianism to many a skittish Congressman-and to all devout Navymen. But that was precisely what he was urging, just as retired Air Force General James Doolittle had urged a fortnight before when appearing before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. In the minds of Jim Gavin and Jimmy Doolittle, and in the opinion of others among the nation's best military thinkers, Neil McElroy cannot even begin to solve the Pentagon's problems until he has a general staff, whatever it may be called. Their argument: only a general staff, standing above violent...
...simultaneously grinding movie cameras. The winner of each match gets $2,000 (the loser, $1,000) and the right to keep playing as long as he wins. Players can win bonuses of $500 for an eagle, $10,000 for a hole in one. With tensely whispered commentary by Announcer Jim Britt. the games drum up genuine suspense, made somehow more tantalizing by the fact that the results are foreordained on film shot far in advance. But the producers have succumbed to only one request for advance screenings by a golf buff who could not bear the suspense. Dwight D. Eisenhower...
John Hammond thrashed through the 100-yard butterfly in his fastest time of the season, 56.4, crushing the old mark by nine seconds. The 400-yard medley relay team of Bill Murray, Jim Stanley, Hammond, and Ron Mischner swam the distance in 4:01.8 to break the pool record by seven seconds. Doug McCartney swam the 200-yard breastroke...
...Summaries: 123--Dave Skeels (H) decisioned Don Weaver, 6-0. 130--Jim Simmonds (M.I.T.) d. Bob Kozol, 14-8. 137--John Watkins (H) pinned Bernie Schneiderman in 2:37 with half nelson and body lock. 147--Orrin Hein (H) d. Mike Rosner, 5-0. 157--Joe Noble (H) pinned Joe Patalive in 5:43 with reverse head chancery and arm lock. 167--Steve Weddle (H) d. Mike Flint, 5-0. 177--Serge McKhann (H) d. Bill Martin, 2-0. Heavyweight--Ted Robbins (H) pinned Crane Zumzalt in 1:53 with reverse nelson and body lock...