Word: jointly
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...pointed out that 47 major appointments were still awaiting Senate confirmation. But Strauss is also a victim of a personal vendetta waged against him by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Agriculture Secretary under Harry Truman and now chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee...
Last week Senator Anderson, who is not even a member of the commerce committee, appeared himself as a witness for two days, read a 42-page attack accusing Strauss of 1) withholding information from the congressional Joint Atomic Energy Committee when he was AEC chairman, 2) hindering U.S. nuclear-power progress, 3) practicing "deception" in the old (1954-55) row over the long-since-canceled Dixon-Yates private-power contract with AEC, and 4) creating "myths" about his achievements. When Anderson accused Strauss of "unqualified falsehoods," New Hampshire's Republican Senator Norris Cotton broke in: "That is a polite...
Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams last week called a joint session of the legislature and read the riot act. "This is truly a disgraceful condition to which a great state has been reduced," cried he. "It cannot but shake the confidence of the people in the procedures of representative government...
...with red tape and interservice tensions in his joint command, four-star Air Force General Earle E. (for Everard) Partridge drew up plans months ago for reorganizing NORAD, the U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command. His principal complaint: he did not have enough authority over assignment of NORAD's Army, Navy and Air Force officers and materiel (TIME, May 19, 1958). But nothing much ever happened about West Pointer Partridge's proposals. Fortnight ago, the Pentagon announced that able "Pat" Partridge, 58, was retiring from the Air Force, effective July 31, after 41 years of service...
Chill in the Woods. Joint air-sea-land operations in coordination with Allies were to become standard operating procedure in World War II, but when the Allies landed on North Africa ("Operation Torch") in November 1942, the idea was a formidable novelty to planners. Lemnitzer drew up the plans for Torch. As Supreme Commander Eisenhower's Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), he showed such a gift for working out the tactical obstacles and logistic snarls of joint operations that he became a sort of permanent, rotating staff officer, got little chance to command his own unit...