Word: quantico
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...headed right up through space toward an annual defense budget of $60 to $70 billion within the next ten years (v. 1958's $39 billion) unless it faces up soon to some basic choices. Next week at the U.S. Marine station at Quantico, Va., 175 of the nation's top military and civilian defense experts will take off coats and jackets, roll up their sleeves to wrestle with the big questions. Items:
...will be an all-out conflict, the so-called "limited" war-if it comes-seems likely to engage the U.S. against a relatively underdeveloped country. The U.S. is fairly well prepared for limited war with airborne Army divisions, Marine units and carrier forces. Says Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, whose Quantico briefcase will be packed with tentative answers to most of the questions: "It would have to be a very big limited war, or one that broke out in several parts of the world simultaneously, for us not to be able to cope with it." Special problem, still unresolved: civil...
...TWINING Lieut. General, U.S.M.C. Quantico...
...corner for money from Actress Betty Grable, getting caught by agents disguised as gardeners. There were absorbing glimpses of malefactors from George ("Machine-Gun") Kelly to Fritz Kuhn and his Nazi German-American Bund, as well as behind-the-scenes sleuthing heroes at work in the FBI's Quantico, Va. laboratories. From secret files came a sequence of rare excitement. Filmed by G-men through a transparent mirror in his office wall, it showed German Spy Frederick Joubert Duquesne clandestinely removing diagrams of the M-1 rifle from his sock...
West Pointer General Nathan F. Twining, 59, Air Force Chief of Staff and soon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took time off from a top-level conference at Quantico, Va., got photographed with the commandant of Marine Corps Schools there, Lieut. General Merrill B. Twining, 54, his seldom-publicized, Annapolis-educated kid brother...