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...Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, a Missourian, became newborn CIA's first director in 1947. General Walter Bedell Smith succeeded...
Shortly after 1 a.m., in the rear of the presidential box at the McDonough gym inaugural hall, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles Erwin Wilson* talked about the Wilson crisis. Ike seemed vehement, once made a table-pounding motion with his doubled fist. Wilson was having his say too. Later, Eisenhower's aides said the President told Wilson that he wanted him to do whatever was necessary to qualify as Defense Secretary. A few hours later, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey heard from friends on Capitol Hill exactly what Wilson would have to do: sell his General Motors stock...
...designed, the production line altered to turn it out, and the assembly line rearranged for the whole car. There were more than 2,000 other engineering changes, and dozens of new problems to solve. Sample: the sports car was so low that the drive shaft went through the rear seat too close to the top to allow padding. Necessity produced an invention. The rear seat was divided, with a permanent arm rest in the center. Not for a year after the sports-car decision was made did the prototype come out of the factory...
Harry Truman had two major generals and a rear admiral (average age: 51) as his White House military aides. Ike's aides, named last week, are younger men (average age: 37) of lower rank: a commander, a lieutenant colonel, a major...
...crashed through into a baggage room below amid clouds of steam and dust and a heart-stopping tumult of sound. The first coach hung at an angle over the gaping hole. The second coach also entered the concourse. Other front coaches were derailed, but passengers in the rear coaches did not realize there had been an accident. They thought that the engineer had made a rather jolting stop...