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Under leadership of the U.S.'s Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, former Panama Canal engineer, some 23 ships of six nations stood in to attack the blockage in three task forces-one clearing smaller wrecks around Port Said, two others working from opposite ends of the canal to join at Ismailia in clearing the cement-laden hulk of the Egyptian LST Akka, by far the toughest single salvage job. The U.N. fleet, said General Wheeler, will be built up to 30 vessels and will operate under a consortium of experienced Dutch and Danish firms. If all goes according...
...Egypt was to clear the canal. Arriving in Cairo with 19 other experts under U.N. auspices, Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.S.A. (ret.) drew up plans to turn over the job to a consortium of three U.S., Danish and Dutch firms. When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler...
...week the first of a fleet of Dutch and Danish salvage vessels began to move toward Egypt. To handle financing of the estimated $40 million clearance operations, Hammarskjold called on Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. To oversee technical operations, he drafted Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. For the 71-year-old Wheeler, canals are an old story. As one of his first Army assignments he took part in the construction of the Panama Canal. "Being a second lieutenant," he recalls, "I practically built it singlehanded...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Leslie Clark Stevens, U.S.N., 61, onetime (1947-49) U.S. naval attache in Moscow, earlier (1937-44) in charge of Bureau of Aeronautics development of World War II naval aircraft; of a heart attack; in Sanford, Fla. Admiral Stevens spoke Russian fluently, understood Russia's history and literature, grew to like the Russian people as much as he disliked their government, wrote a thoughtful, objective book (Russian Assignment) on his experiences. Russophile Stevens' prediction: "As surely as light follows darkness, the problems created in a decent people by the forced maintenance of power will somehow...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis Andrew Pick, 66, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime (1949-52) chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...