Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower was just returned from West Point, the class of '15 reunion and the homecoming football game (Army 53, Colgate 7). Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had gone home to Cincinnati after watching football in Columbus (Ohio State 47, Northwestern 6). Then the news of Sputnik II rattled over the wires and official Washington, as though by previously stenciled orders, reacted as though it had been socked by nothing more than a soggy sponge; e.g., Pentagon sources were careful to say that McElroy had not even called his personal aides to ask about the air-conditioned moon. "It surely...
Five lettermen, including Captain Dick Woolston and high scorer George Harrington, are returning from the team that last year compiled the best Crimson basketball record in over a decade. Grif McClellan, Neil Muncaster and Bryant Danner are the other three lettermen. Their average height...
...practice. Successor: close friend and No. 1 aide, Deputy Attorney General William Pierce Rogers, who at 44 will be the youngest member of the Cabinet. It was the third major change in the Eisenhower Cabinet in three months (others: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson for George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy for Charles Wilson) and brought the average Cabinet age down from...
...technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense Secretary Neil McElroy would henceforth require weekly missile reports from his service chiefs. The importance even of the reports was open to question in view of the fact that Wilson had been getting much the same sort of carbon copies for more than 18 months. Moreover, in direct antithesis to Nixon and Dulles came other Administration...
...with Russia apparently well along in IRBM development, the President and the National Security Council had tagged the IRBM program with top priority. But the problem was also agonizingly tough. The Thor-Jupiter committee started meditating last August, but one of the first decisions announced by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy when he took over from Wilson a fortnight ago was a postponement of the final decision. The committee had reported that it needed data from additional test firings of each missile to come up with a sound answer (each has been fired about half a dozen times so far). Cost...