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Blond, long-legged (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) "Opie" Weyland, California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point: Weyland's planes protected Patton's southern flank during the first streak to the Seine ("You do the worrying about my flank," said Patton), strafed 20,000 German troops so mightily that they surrendered to U.S. airpower...
Says Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton: "First the foreign manufacturers took our foreign market. Then they went after our coastal markets. Now they're invading our inland markets. Everyone in the industry feels that foreign steel is a growing menace." Roger Blough has strong ideas about how that menace can be stopped. Says he: "A fundamental law of business is 'compete or die.' The only practical way to keep foreign-made products from overcrowding our markets at home is to compete in quality, price and service; and the only practical way to reach foreign...
...objective is to conclude a contract that will involve no increase in the overall employment costs of the company," said Republic Steel's tough, plain-talking President Thomas Patton on TV's Meet the Press. Not only does the current contract provide high wages and benefits, contended Patton, but it also leaves plenty of room for further wage boosts through job promotions and incentive pay. Patton's proof: since contract negotiations opened just two months ago, average hourly wages have jumped from...
...made. Montgomery drew the German armored strength onto the Second British Army and First Canadian Army at Caen, while the First U.S. Army broke out at St.-LÓ. Hitler and Rommel held back the German 15th Army near Calais, waiting for a second invasion that never came. George Patton, with his ivory-handled pistols, led the Third U.S. Army from Avranches to Le Mans to Orleans to Verdun to Metz in the most spectacular armored advance of the war. There was the unforgettable moment when Paris was liberated. But those moments essentially had been made possible...
...Heavy-set (5 ft. 11 in.. 190 Ibs.). "Lem" Lemnitzer. 59, son of a Pennsylvania shoemaker, has spent his 39 years since West Point getting jobs done and going away before anybody noticed he was there. Never the dramatic sort to pack pistols like Patton or a hand grenade like Ridgway, he was the workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years...