Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battleline at that time as an armistice line. This, he said, "would constitute an immediate cease-fire on the basis of agreement on one item only of the agenda. Thus, the Communists would be insured against effects of future military operations while other agenda items were being discussed...General Ridgway strongly requested reconsideration of Washington's instructions...
...Army-Navy-Air Force Journal, an unofficial service publication, reported last week, however, that General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief of Staff, was very disturbed over any reported cut in ground forces...
...demand a recount, but with the block of editorial researchers holding solid, Dulles will retain Times' title, Man of the Year. The Department of Defense will release details of a new manpower plan which abolishes Armed Forces and conscripts all young men to 27 months with General Motors. General Ridgway and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will resign in protest. Henry Ford II, will not be happy about it either...
...work, Simmons must fulfill an overwhelming number of engagements that to ordinary citizens would seem to be mostly social, but to Simmons are strictly line of duty. In one recent week he: lunched with the Nicaraguan ambassador; attended receptions at the Venezuelan embassy, the Latvian legation and General Matthew Ridgway's quarters; dined twice at the White House; flew to New York to represent the President at the departure of Britain's Queen Mother; returned to Washington in time to meet French Premier Mendes-France; escorted Mendes-France to the White House and the National Press Club; lunched...
From the Army-Navy-Air Force Journal came a prediction that Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway will not be retired when he turns 60 next March, but instead will be kept right...