Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower came back from World War II convinced that U.S. defense needed "central planning-the essence of unity in the armed forces.") But when a reporter asked last week whether he was still in that fight, Ike seemed to back away. Furthermore, it was increasingly clear that Defense Secretary Neil McElroy was in no hurry to present to the President a specific reorganization plan. McElroy's big move last week: to call for advice on reorganization from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Nathan Twining, and from ex-J.C.S. Chairmen Admiral Arthur Radford and General...
Taking a few minutes off between sessions to gulp down a creamed-chicken lunch in his office late in the week. Lyndon Johnson was interrupted by a telephone call from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, with word that the Army was being authorized to proceed on a top-priority basis with work on a solid-fuel missile to replace the 200-mile, liquid-fuel Redstone rocket. It took just seconds for Johnson to convince McElroy that the announcement should be made by Major General John B. Medaris. scheduled to appear before the Johnson Subcommittee that very afternoon...
...would split the parts of its current package proposal. Under Stassen's plan, the U.S. would agree to an end to nuclear testing, would not insist on an end at the same time to production of nuclear materials for weapons. Dulles stood aside while Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining turned down the proposal, backed by AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson-and Dwight Eisenhower. Where the defeat left Honest Harold, no one was sure. Powerful Administration staffers hoped he would quit rather than be fired. But, said a Washington...
...expects to deploy well upward of 20 Thors into Europe with "initial operational capability" this year. Thor is guided by an inertial direction system backed up by an alternate method, is powered by a single rocket engine that generates a big kick of 135,000 lbs. Recently Defense Secretary Neil McElroy ordered Chrysler to get a production line set up for the Army's liquid-fuel 1,500-mile Jupiter, and hopes to deliver a dozen or so Jupiters to NATO late this year. One of Jupiter's several major weaknesses is that fueling and other primping take...
Center of the storm was a 42-year-old Arkansan, Dr. Neil Holland Sullenberger, 1939 graduate of the University of Arkansas' School of Medicine, who began to specialize in surgery as soon as he finished his Army stint. He won certification by the American Board of Surgery, and recognition as a skilled and sometimes daring operator. But Dr. Sullenberger had a knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year...