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Three accredited private investigators of U.S. defenses nailed a bright red danger signal to the Pentagon's highest mast this week. The signal: "The military position of the United States has declined in the short span of 15 years from one of unchallenged security to that of a nation both open and vulnerable to direct and devastating attack." The investigators, operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns...
...retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...
Heading the guest list in rank and position was Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has accepted Martin's hospitality three times (on one occasion accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and infant grandson). Other guests: Air Force Lieut. General E. R. ("Pete") Quesada (ret.), administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and onetime aviation adviser to President Eisenhower; General Sam Anderson, chief of the Air Force Air Matériel Command; General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research...
...anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity of function or responsibility," said Eisenhower. "This thing has, for very great denominations, a religious meaning ... I have no quarrel with them, as a matter of fact this being largely the Catholic Church, they are one of the groups that I admire and respect, but this has nothing to do with governmental contact with other governments. We do not intend to interfere with . . . the internal affairs of any other government . . . And if they want to go to someone for help, they should go, they will...
...campaign strategy of Adlai Stevenson, phantom candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (TIME, Oct. 5), was sadly reaffirmed by another Democratic hopeful, who went to Stevenson to ask for his endorsement and anonymously told about the outcome last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one, at least not until after the presidential primaries; 2) he will not withdraw his own name from speculation, but 3) he will make no overt effort to obtain the Democratic nomination. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Democratic Pacemaker John Kennedy tut-tutted such coy stratagems. Said he: "The primaries are going to be decisive...