Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ichthyology & the Reds. Thanks to an unmilitary, scholarly commanding general named John Palmer, Lieut. White, while stationed in Panama as an infantry subaltern, got interested in both free-soaring thought and the young, free-soaring Air Corps. In 1924 he got an assignment to flight school at Brooks Field, Texas, won his wings...
...cost of living in Indonesia has shot up 36% in the past six months, 96% since 1953. Cotton textiles are up 40%, the price of rice higher than it has been at any time in 30 years. From Sumatra to Amboina, dissatisfied military leaders stirred in near rebellion. Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, onetime Sukarno favorite who now leads dissident forces in East Indonesia (Celebes, Lesser Sundas and Moluccas), says 'flatly: "Sukarno must go." From Sumatra last week came word of a Communist-inspired attack on Indonesian regular army units stationed in the town of Siantar, 80 miles from...
...major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance a placard blazoned the Army's basic doctrinal claim to render the Air Force obsolete. "In the missile era," read the placard, quoting the Army's Lieut. General James M. Gavin, "the man who controls the land will control the space above...
Most strident Army performance of the week came from Lieut. General Stanley Mickelson, retiring chief of Army's Air Defense Command. So sharp was Mickelson's original speech that the Defense Department would not let him deliver all of it; the draft, however, had already been distributed to newsmen. Bitterly, the Mickelson text scorned the Air Force, derided the concept of airpower. Said the Army's General Mickelson, echoing a favorite line of the Army's General Gavin: "The Army points the way for America to shed herself of any stigma of the theory of mass...
...what Lieut. Servan-Schreiber has to report is dreadful, but men of good will fare almost worse than the corrupt brutalitarians. One officer was so dedicated to winning back the trust of the native population that he founded an Arab-French unit. On patrol, his outfit was betrayed into ambush and he was machine-gunned by one of his own Arabs...