Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limp answers from Pentagon officials-about interservice rivalries, overlapping missile programs and the whole organizational foul-up that makes it almost impossible to trace responsibility for any kind of failure in U.S. defense. No sooner had the congressional leaders left the White House than President Eisenhower called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, into his office. His orders: find the right answers to the Pentagon's problems and put them into effect. Said the President: "You have a free hand...
Right wing Neil Johnson scored three goals, two unassisted, to lead the undefeated freshman hockey team to its second win of the season, a 7 to 2 victory over the B.C. freshmen at Watson Rink yesterday...
DEFENSE SPENDING: No final figures were set, but Defense Secretary Neil McElroy indicated that the cost of national defense will come to about $40 billion-$2 billion above this year's ceiling. The increase will go mostly toward missile development. Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell was notably skeptical about the defense program. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson lit into Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles about the cost of interservice rivalries in the missile field. President Eisenhower broke up the argument: "As President, I want you to know that I hate waste, that I hate...
...with the Air Force brush" because he wanted to maintain the neutrality necessary to succeed Wilson as Defense Secretary: Although Quarles's friends give him high marks for his service impartiality, he is in danger of reaping the whirlwind of Charlie Wilson's mistakes. New Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy leans on him less and less...
Bill Lewis, Bob Schwartzman, and Dick Nye were all unsuccessful in their matches, while teammates Neil Slater-Booth and George Lemann won. In the closest of the five matches, Lemann lost his first two games to Joe Barr. Behind 14-2 in what proved the deciding game of the match, Lemann came back to defeat Barr 17-16, andchalk up one of the Crimson's two wins...