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...Pentagon office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, on the ornate library table once owned by William Tecumseh Sherman, perches a model of the Oozlefinch Bird, a wondrous creature indeed. This week, as the Congress returns to a Washington torn between the costly requirements of national defense and the allure of economy in an election year, and as a high-powered Rockefeller committee reports on the faults of the nation's defense organization, the Secretary of Defense need be even more wondrous than the Oozlefinch. For an appraisal of Neil Hosier McElroy, sixth U.S. Secretary of Defense, see NATIONAL...
...president of Procter & Gamble, sat down at Washington's largest desk (9 ft. by 4 ft. 11 in., with 20 drawers), which had been used by General John J. Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman's ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed, missile-toting creature, the insigne of Army missilemen at Fort Bliss, Texas. Also on the Sherman table were the three telephones whose rings, over the coming months, could only have deep meaning...
July. The Student Employment Agency will deny that it is a marriage bureau during the summer months. James Reston, in a copyrighted story, will declare that Eisenhower went comatose months ago, and that the country has been run by Sherman Adams and "some guy called Watson and his 3,000 IBM machines." Abroad, Alfred Krupp will deny that he now owns the controlling stock in the French Republic. Nikita Khrushchev will bring a formal complaint to the United Nations General Assembly. The Soviet Ruler will complain that the United States has been distributing subversive literature along Russia's northern coast...
October. On the academic scene, Professor Leonard K. Nash will survive a green explosion which destroys Burr Hall. Says Mr. Nash, "It was pretty spectacular." President Eisenhower regains consciousness and announces that this nation, "with the help of God, Sherman Adams, and a firm belief in motherhood will muddle through the crisis." The Air Force denies that it has bombed the Navy-controlled Pentagon. Dean Bundy denies that he is upset by Harvard's winless football team...
December. In a Christmas address from the White House, President Eisenhower will say that he has recovered from his recent illness and that in the forthcoming year, this nation, with the help of God, Motherhood, Sherman Adams and the caddy at the Burning Tree Golf Club, will attain greater heights than ever. He will deny that he is leading an all-out Army offensive against the Air Force controlled Pentagon...