Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gavin paused for breath, Subcommittee Chairman Lyndon Johnson asked him: "Do you anticipate any criticism as a result of your very frank responses to [our] questions?" Replied West Pointer Gavin: "No sir, I do not." Last week, to the surprise of his closest friends, Jim Gavin-often called the most important man in the Army-announced that he will retire in March, after 30 years of service...
...Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary of the Air Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer Ellis A. Johnson; Harvardman Henry A. Kissinger, author of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (TIME, Aug. 26); Colonel George A. Lincoln, West Point social scientist; Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE; Lawyer Frank C. Nash, former Assistant to the Defense Secretary (who died during the study); Laurance S. Rockefeller; Harvard...
McElroy moved fast and surely. Even before he took office, he had toured U.S. military bases, poking into every niche of his new land, sea and air empire. Once installed, he drove up to Capitol Hill, appeared before Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, answered questions with a candor that made senatorial friends, and in detail that showed he had done his homework. He stepped confidently into the high society of international diplomacy, went to London and Bonn and wound up at the NATO conference in Paris beside-if slightly to the rear of-President Eisenhower...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9--Sen. Johnson of Texas, Democratic leader of the Senate and chairman of its preparedness subcommittee, called Thursday for an increase in the production of ballistic missiles...
...Bernard A. Schriever, director of the ballistic missiles program for the Air Force, was quoted by Johnson as saying that both the Thor and Atlas missiles are being supported at an adequate rate in the development stage "but that production schedules could and should be accelerated...