Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Harry Truman sent Under Secretary of State Edward Miller to San Jose, the cool, green capital of Costa Rica. There, amidst the yellow silk tapestries of the one-story' Foreign Office, Miller pinned on a beaming, weeping Ulate the U.S. white-&-gold Legion of Merit in the highest grade for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in office...
...week's end, the panel recessed, undecided whether stock options are inflationary or not. Also undecided: If the option plans are thrown out, by what other means will U.S. industry find merit incentives for its top management...
...Kimball broke out the two men's service records. Conolly is the Navy's most decorated admiral (D.S.M. with two gold stars, Legion of Merit with one gold star, Navy Cross), is smart and well liked, but has spent almost his entire service at sea or in overseas commands. Kimball hardly knew him. Fechteler he had come to know and admire when the admiral was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (for personnel) after the war. In the close teamwork between CNO and Navy Secretary, old friends are best, especially if both are new at their jobs...
...balanced forces" concept which rigidly rules the J.C.S. Balanced forces is a cozy compromise of unification, whereby the three services agree to split what money there is into equal portions. If equal shares happen to make sense in any one year, that is only a happy accident; its merit is peace among the services, not efficiency in arming against a war. Now, says the Air Force, the time has come to do away with...
...TIME'S Pentagon is not wearing the Purple Heart but the Legion of Merit -which should have been put after the Silver Star instead of ahead...