Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin Co.. manufacturers of military aircraft and missiles (Vanguard, Titan, Mace). In the past three years no fewer than 25 top-ranking Navy and Air Force officers vacationed on Eleuthera at Martin's expense...
Heading the guest list in rank and position was Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has accepted Martin's hospitality three times (on one occasion accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and infant grandson). Other guests: Air Force Lieut. General E. R. ("Pete") Quesada (ret.), administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and onetime aviation adviser to President Eisenhower; General Sam Anderson, chief of the Air Force Air Matériel Command; General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research...
Appearing last September before a closed session of the House committee, George Bunker, Martin's board chairman, vehemently urged an open session, just as vigorously denied that there was anything unethical about paying the expenses of the officers. "I cannot conceive." said he, "that anyone could possibly believe men of their character and responsibilities could be improperly influenced by playing golf with me on Eleuthera." Another witness testified that the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed Martin's request to list the $18,000 in expense accounts as a business expense and a tax deduction...
...against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted the 40 & 8, forbade it to use the American Legion name, emblem or any other Legion connection...
Like thousands of other 17-year-olds, Marie Martin and Dave Newby sweated through a College Board exam last week. Unlike most of the others, they were delightfully distant from their high schools in Illinois and Ohio. Ten miles east of the dark mountains of Communist China, Marie and Dave pondered answers in a classroom near Hong Kong. It was another fringe benefit in the maiden voyage of the International School of America, creation of Karl G. Jaeger, a budding (29) industrialist turned teacher. Tuition: $4,650 (including air fare...