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...Washington one of the Army's most persuasive and respected generals took the occasion of Berlin to spell out for the Senate Armed Services Committee his modern version of an old Army land doctrine. "To protect people on this earth you need to hold the land with forces on the ground." said General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer. the Army's Vice Chief of Staff last fortnight. "The addition of nuclear or thermonuclear types of weapons does not in any way replace the requirements for good manpower." The Senators listened with close attention, later confirmed President Eisenhower's appointment...
...sick Government-bond market last week had its worst sinking spell. As prices of old issues hit new lows, their yields rose as high as 4.28%. exceeding the 4¼% ceiling on coupon rates the Government can set on new long-term bonds. Not since the hectic, tight-money days of early 1932 have yields risen so high. The sinking spell came at a particularly bad time for Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson; he needed $5.3 billion to carry the Government through June...
North Carolina, observed Historian Arnold Toynbee in 1939, enjoys a "springlike burgeoning of life" because, unlike other Deep South states, it is not "a country living under a spell." The most important new fact about the U.S. South in the spring of 1959: burgeoning North Carolina, too busy in pursuit of 20th century economic development to be inhibited by diehard last stands against school integration, has quietly taken over the mantle of Southern leadership that Virginia wore so long, so proudly...
...After a spell of convoy duty, he boarded the light cruiser Brooklyn in October, and went to Casablanca where he experienced his baptism by fire. Operation "Torch" was then the greatest amphibious undertaking in history, and Morison was on hand to record it, in all its complexities. The captain praised him after the battle, saying, "By his alert, active, analytical work in recording the events of the action; by his keen fighting spirit . . . ;and by his calm manner he contributed to the general and overall performance of the vessel...
...third spell in the Atlantic--following up anti-sub action--and then an inspection tour of the French and Italian beach-heads occupied Morison in the winter of '44-'45, and then back to the Pacific. He arrived too late for Iwo Jima but on time to take in the action at Okinawa, on the battleship USS Tennessee. While he was on that ship, a kamikaze pilot provided him with his closest brush with death, narrowly missing him, Admiral Deyo, and Captain Heffernan on the suicidal plunge. After visiting the Phillipines, Morison planned to participate in the long-awaited Kyushu...