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...Nominated to succeed Admiral Arthur W. Radford as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in August: Air Force Chief Nathan Farragut Twining, 59, first airman to hold the nation's top military...
...picture accompanying your Feb. 25 story on Admiral Radford shows him standing beside a scroll. This scroll [see cut] was drawn and given to the admiral by President Syngman Rhee. Its Chinese characters...
...Pentagon last week were reports about impending changes in the top command of the U.S. armed forces. The rumors varied in detail, but nearly all agreed that 1) Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining, 59, will become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Admiral Arthur Radford's term expires in August, and 2), Twining's replacement will be Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Thomas White, 55, a skilled Pentagon hand since 1948. Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay, 50, one of the great military...
...Around and about these capabilities and problems there is gathering an acute awareness of the importance of the military-diplomatic role. "So we're the big stick," said one SAC officer. "So maybe old Dulles thinks of us when he sits down at the mahogany." And when Admiral Radford one day paraphrased Teddy Roosevelt, "Never extend a military projection beyond its capability of winning," one of his officers echoed afterwards: "Substitute 'diplomatic' for 'military' and you have a currently valid statement. In fact, you have a policy...
...moves on toward August, when his second and (by law) final term on the J.C.S. is due to expire, Radford sometimes plunks forward into the future of American life and American defense, now inextricably intertwined. Says he: "We haven't seen anything yet." Then Radford turns back to the meaning of what George Washington, the first Commander in Chief, had said as he confronted the turbulence of the Old World and got the American Experiment on the way. "There is a rank due to the United States among nations," said Washington, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost...