Word: nate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office (all security-cleared because they are in a position to overhear top-secret conversations). Then McElroy began the breakneck round of business that has not since let up: he held a brief press conference, discussed the fiscal 1959 defense budget with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nate Twining, was briefed by Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil on the National Security Council meeting scheduled for the next morning...
...memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that he has his problems too. Among them...
...Teamster publications to suggest improvement, thinking up ways of bettering employer relationships and helping Beck root out rotten elements in the massive union he had taken over. But, said Pitzele sadly, the more reforms he suggested, the less he saw Beck and the more he had to deal through Nate Shefferman. who was paying Pitzele's Teamster retainer through the infamous Shefferman Labor Relations Associates firm. Pitzele saw nothing wrong in Shefferman's paying him ("This is an unusual union, and these are unusual people"). But as the Teamster crooks grew fatter, he did begin to see something...
...Objectives. Thus Khrushchev translated the new world prestige of Sputnik and the world's fears of Red missiles into one, specific, power-political threat to an area that the Communists have long and unsuccessfully sought to domi nate. He sought to intimidate NATO Partner Turkey, which is menaced by Russia on the north and by an increasingly Red Syria on the south (see FOREIGN NEWS). He sought to feel out the temper of the NATO nations and discover whether the U.S.'s European allies would stand by the U.S. He also sought to make an impressive power play...
...British had obviously become junior member of the pact, welcome but not encouraged to make too much noise. Undisputedly senior was the U.S., which emphasized the importance it attached to the meeting by sending Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson and Air Force Chief of Staff General Nate Twining, who is soon to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...