Word: naval
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...Only a naval officer and an army doctor met him at Viettri, the exchange point near the Red River. "Where is my staff?" said Christian de Castries. The unpleasant fact was that, in the bitterness of defeat, some senior French officers had refused to go to Viettri on the ground that De Castries' defense tactics at Dienbienphu had been faulty and that he was partly responsible for the fall of the fortress. To reporters, De Castries said that he had never run up a white flag, even when Dienbienphu was overrun. After his capture, he had no water during...
Advice to Psychologists. At a Manhattan meeting of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Fred E. Fiedler of the University of Illinois cast doubt on the existence of "natural leaders." Financed by the Office of Naval Research, Psychologist Fiedler spent three years trying to find out what makes certain groups so much more effective than others. He came to the conclusion that the most important factor is not so much the ability of the leader or of the subordinates. It is the "matching" of the leader to the men under...
...three months Quesada has been busy recruiting, already has a cadre of 15 crackerjack scientists, headed by Dr. Ernst H. Krause, 41, former associate director of research for nucleonics at Washington's Naval Research Laboratory. Laboratory construction will start early this fall. Eventually, Quesada hopes to make back 80% of the $10 million total cost to Lockheed, but he will never try to make his new laboratory show a profit. Says Quesada: "Scientists function best when they know that they can work without dictation and develop theories irrespective of military contracts. We hope that through our ability...
Junior spent the rest of the European war in Bermuda. The capture was a top secret that the German admiralty never fathomed. The captured codebooks, logs and general orders were described by Naval intelligence officers as one of the greatest windfalls of the war. For his heroism, Lieut. David (now dead) got the Medal of Honor...
...Pacific, was lost at sea in 1945. In World War I, young Doodle served as an aviator in France; in World War II, he commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific. Later he served as senior Air Force member on the U.N.'s Military and Naval Staff Committee; in 1949 he was given the job of coordinating plans for the new academy. With an earnest but easygoing diplomacy, he whittled down the bewildering array of blueprints, picked an able committee of civilians and airmen (among them: Charles A. Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz) to choose a site. Finally...