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...Foster Dulles, is ceaselessly advocated and practiced at high policy levels by Airman Radford. This Eisenhower concept, carrying downward through all levels of U.S. foreign policy, thus reflects a growing U.S. move to recapture the spirit of the logic of what the Navy's great theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, called "reasonable policy supported by might," limited by Theodore Roosevelt's word of caution, "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be eventually able to carry out my will by force...
Some 300 former athletic stars and their guests jammed the Club to hear eulogies given to the following "greats": Former coach Percy D. Haughton '99, Charles D. Daley '01, Hamilton Fish '10, Huntington D. Hardwick '15, Stanley B. Pennock '15, Edward W. Mahan '16, and Benjamin H. Ticknor...
Only three of the Hall of Famers were able to receive their awards in person--Fish, Mahan, and Ticknor. The others have all died, except for Daley, who is living on the West Coast and was unable to attend...
...Alfred Thayer Mahan Rear Admiral...
...likely to do so. It is in the new dimension of change that the Air Force is building toward the fantastically complicated era of the supersonic airplane, the hydrogen bomb and the guided missile. It is thus that it intends to hold up its end of Admiral Mahan's word-"watchfulness...