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...THOMAS LEM. SCHMIDT Northridge, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Kennedy voted for Benson's farm program 27 times," an angry farmer told Kennedy Aide Lem Billings. "It says so right here." And he pointed to a Humphrey brochure. Despite cries of "foul" from Governor Gaylord Nelson and Senator William Proxmire, Humphrey pressed the attack. Crowed he, pushing back from a Humphrey Family Day bean feed in Wausau's Newman High School cafeteria: "I feel like I just swallowed two tons of vitamins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On, Wisconsin | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Lem Lemnitzer moved like a nonconductor. In December he smoothly headed off a drive by the new civilian space agency (NASA) to take over Huntsville, but he promised to serve any NASA needs. His own strongest efforts had long since been thrown behind development of more earthy necessities, e.g., a mortar-spotting radar in 1953, a plastic grenade launcher this year. His steady emphasis on combat readiness as top priority promises to scale the Army's space push down to manageable proportions. In word and deed he seemed just the steady old pro the Army needed to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Lyman suffered in silence the nickname "Rocko." (WELCOME HOME, ROCKO, read 1945 Honesdale banners.) Growing up, Lem learned golf, polished it into his present long-drive, low-80s game (one back-home partner on Honesdale's nine-hole course: Art Wall, 1959 Masters champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Revolutionary War. Soldiers everywhere know that the Army that Lem Lemnitzer will take over has already plunged into a period of basic changes. "It's a damned revolution,'' said a head-shaking first sergeant on San Francisco's Angel Island. Samples of the revolution: MISSILES IN THE SUBURBS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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