Word: lieuts
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Named to head the new command, which is unnamed as yet, was the Army's Lieut. General Paul D. Adams, 54, a West Pointer ('28) who is proud of his rating as both a paratrooper and a combat infantryman. Adams, who will be promoted to full general for the job, commanded the land forces during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958, and he knows how hard it is to get troops to the right place at the right time. Says he: "The unified command is the only way to get the job done...
...longer the filibuster lasted, the shorter tempers grew in the white-marble capitol at Montgomery. In the senate, a member leaped to his feet to accuse the presiding officer, Lieut. Governor Albert Boutwell, of prejudiced parliamentary rulings. To everyone's surprise Boutwell burst into tears, prayed between sobs that "My heart may never become so hard that I cannot shed a tear." Joe Robertson, Governor John Patterson's executive secretary, got into an argument with a house member, angrily called him an s.o.b. The ensuing fistfight was broken up by Public Safety Director Floyd Mann. While state troopers...
...extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
Casting as he goes along, he has recently signed stuffier sterns than Fabian, Sands and Anka. Pentagon Peter Lawford will play a British commando leader,*Richard Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play...
...control center for the vast building project is at Inglewood, Calif., deputy headquarters for the Air Force Systems Command. Boss of the coast-to-coast construction crew is Lieut. General Howell M. Estes Jr., 46, a tough, taciturn veteran of the Strategic Air Command. Estes and his ballistic systems division commander, Major General Thomas P. Gerrity, 47, another SAC veteran, start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m., log 65 hours a week on the job, and expect their staff to do the same. Since the program began in 1956, Estes and his men have discovered that keeping...