Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Armed Services Committee, up in arms, deputized Illinois Democrat Melvin Price to investigate all the Air Force manuals. The Air Force started its own investigation, named its deputy chief, General Curtis LeMay, who has better things to do, to lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...