Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Neil McElroy took his seat in the target chair before the House Armed Services Committee. Studying him with trained marksmen's eyes sat the 37-man committee, headed by Georgia's Democrat Carl Vinson. Congress' No. 1 anti-reorganization man. Purpose of the hearing: to fire a few range and windage rounds at McElroy and the Administration's defense reorganization plan...
Times. "The Administration's widely promised fight for President Eisenhower's Pentagon reorganization bill turned into a quiet, well-ordered retreat," wrote Washington Correspondent Russell Baker. Neil McElroy "congenially offered up major portions of the legislation for rewriting by the hostile House Armed Services Committee. Thus, before the rousing all-out battle pledged by the President was ever joined, Mr. McElroy had set the stage for a compromise settlement with the plan's bitterest critics...
...squelch harmful high-level interservice rivalries. Henceforth, said the order, the Secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force will submit recommendations for promotion of generals and admirals above two-star rank to the Defense Secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff-and not directly to the President. It is Neil McElroy's intention not to promote men in positions of "importance and responsibility" to higher ranks unless they have "demonstrated . . . the capacity for dealing objectively-without extreme service partisanship-with matters of the broadest significance to our national security...
...varsity's only losing efforts, Princeton's Bob Fisher won the discus, but Neil Muncaster and deKiewiet placed second and third for the varsity; Princeton took first and second in the Landauless low hurdles, with Dave Rosenthal's third preventing the Tiger sweep...
Reider will compete in the two-mile against some of the best runners in the East. In other individual events Pat Liles and Henry Wente will enter the broad jump; Jim Doty and Dunc Johnson, the hammer; and Neil Muncaster, John deKiewiet, and Gus Moede, the discus...