Word: radford
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During World War II, Gould ended up as a lieutenant commander in charge of Admiral Arthur Radford's office aboard the carrier U.S.S. Yorktown in the Pacific. In 1946, he was hired to set up a radio, TV and theater section for Boston University. It was a demanding job. Gould had to recruit a faculty, teach 18 hours a week-and start an educational FM station. He also found time to co-author a book on Training the Local Announcer. Gould then spent two years as assistant to B.U. President Harold Case, learning some of the subtleties of running...
...University who has known Viet Nam since 1953, Fall says-correctly-that a U.S. bombing raid to destroy Viet Minh antiaircraft batteries ringing Dienbienphu was strongly favored at the time by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford. In fact, U.S. military planners considered both conventional and nuclear bombing attacks and warned the Administration that, if the nation intervened, the Air Force should be free to use whatever weapons were needed; no decision on this was made. Fall writes that planning did go far enough ahead, however...
Crucial Decision. The scheme was effectively killed on April 3, 1954, when Dulles and Radford met with eight legislative leaders to plead for Congress' support. Johnson, who was among the legislators, reportedly asked how many allies had been invited to join with the U.S. Because of the shortage of time, none had, and the lawmakers told Dulles that Congress would not support an attack without allied support...
...classed it as death by "pistol shot, wrote up a cursory report and marked the case 'unsolved.' " The magazine also suggests that "Domingo was the intended victim." In fact, there is a full police report on the shooting (it was a shotgun, not a pistol). Moreover, one Radford Lee Hill, 41, confessed that he killed Eddy and served 20 months in prison for manslaughter. > On the Sunday night that Jack Ruby shot Oswald, six men met in Ruby's apartment. Editor Jones reported that three of the men at that "significant meeting" have "died strangely." With typical...
...American Conservative Union sets itself a proselytizing mission, to develop and articulate the conservative position on major issues. William Buckley, John Chamberlain, Lewis Strauss and Arthur Radford are among the leading members. It resembles the new Goldwater group. But A.C.U. Chairman Donald Bruce says: "We're not being swallowed by anybody...