Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible for the nation's ICBM program are both ex-Air Force officers. Convair's Atlas team is headed by J. R. ("Jim") Dempsey, 37, West Pointer and onetime Air Force lieutenant colonel; Martin's Titan group is bossed by Howard Merrill, 38, a former Air Force captain. Both men made their reputations after going into industry, not before. They recognized, as do many career officers, that promotions are slow in peacetime, and a bright young man can often do better for himself-and in some ways, better for his country-by putting aside his uniform...
...fight them. West Pointer Tachito has a 4,000-man army, with Garands. Thompson submachine guns, .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars. For Central America his air force is impressive: 20-odd P-51s. Tracking his troops on an Esso map last week, Tachito disdainfully dismissed the revolt as a "flop.'' For his part, Luis put Nicaragua under a state of siege and pressured the Organization of American States into a reluctant, long-distance study of the uprising...
...Force Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., 46, son of the Army's first Negro general officer, was nominated by Dwight Eisenhower for promotion to two-star rank. As a major general, poker-backed West Pointer Davis, now deputy chief of staff at Air Force advance headquarters in West Germany, would become the highest-ranking Negro in U.S. armed forces annals...
...NORAD's headquarters in Colorado Springs, President Eisenhower last week tabbed four-star General Lawrence S. (for Sherman) Kuter, 53, Air Force commander in the Pacific. A brigadier general at 36-he was then the youngest general* in the nation's armed forces -slim, mustached West Pointer ('27) Larry Kuter saw duty in Britain, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, was the first boss (1948-51) of the Military Air Transport Service...
Kuter's replacement at the Air Force's Pacific headquarters in Hawaii: Brooklyn-born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...