Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen men. the President of the U.S. was frisky as a platoon commander. Last week President Eisenhower delivered three speeches in two days, consulted with Administration and military leaders on the problems of U.S. continental air defense, conferred with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Lauris Norstad (see FOREIGN NEWS), with the visiting chiefs of Western Europe's Common Market, its Coal and Steel Community and its Atomic Energy Community, had a nonpolitical chat with New York's visiting Governor Nelson Rockefeller, rounded it all off with 54 holes of weekend golf at Gettysburg...
...Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the occasion to write Canada off as a military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed support. But Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker gave no sign that Ottawa is willing...
...Norstad's argument was that what NATO's arsenal now needs is ground-attack fighters. He won no commitments. Asked later about a report that the government now hoped to postpone a decision on the chance that a summit conference might agree on some kind of European disengagement. Defense Production Minister Raymond O'Hurley replied: ''Yes. that's what we had in mind...
...struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge last week described as the "poor, meandering old President") and inflexible old men in France and Germany. Fortnight ago, when NATO's General Lauris Norstad temperately pointed out the dangers to the West of military disengagement in Central Europe, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror exploded with a frontpage blast headlined MEDDLING AMERICAN GENERALS. Bawled the Mirror: "Marshal Stalin (who was not even a real general) died in 1953. Now there is a new menace...
World Congress of Flight (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A symposium on man's battle to get as far off the ground as he can, conducted by NATO's General Lauris Norstad, Physicist Edward Teller, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield...