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John Alex McCone, 56, onetime Under Secretary of the Air Force and longtime advocate of deterrent air power (see box). McCone was appointed to fill Strauss's seat on the commission, is expected to be named chairman after Senate approval...
...Private Dynamo in the Public Service Named by President Eisenhower to a chair on the Atomic Energy Commission: California Industrialist John Alex McCone...
Beginnings. His Scots-Irish family has been in the machinery-manufacturing business since 1860, when grandfather John McCone started an iron foundry in Virginia City, Nev. His father opened branch plants in Reno, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where John Alex McCone was born Jan. 4, 1902. He studied engineering at the University of California, at Berkeley (B.S., '22), took his first job that year as a riveter and boilermaker with Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works...
...thinkers: onetime Army Chief of Staff (1945-48) Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Generals Joseph Lawton Collins and George C. Marshall. Air Generals Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Joseph T. McNarney, former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter and Los Angeles Industrialist John McCone, who served as special assistant to Defense Secretary Forrestal in 1948 and as Air Force Under Secretary in 1950-51. Although they differ in detail, all have advocated what amounts to some form of a general staff system...
...candidate for director of the Defense Department's new Buck Rogers-minded Advanced Research Projects Agency: John A. McCone, California industrialist (shipbuilding) and onetime (1950-51) Under Secretary for Air. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's plan is that ARPA will take charge of such new weapons systems as anti-missile missiles and, possibly, satellites themselves before they become factors in interservice rivalry. With such a charter, the ARPA boss could easily evolve into a weapons czar without any fanfare...