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...effort: his first show of the Holloway style. "They never told me," he said, "about the lack of space on destroyers. My baggage filled the whole wardroom. I was a very unpopular young officer for that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed a lieutenant-he built up a steady professionalism that led him to his first command, the destroyer Hopkins. "I made a beauty out of the Hopkins," he said. "I brought...
...offered to go to the aid of any Middle Eastern nation-at that nation's request-to help it beat out attack or subversion by Communist or other outside powers. In historic testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford. spelled out the U.S. purpose in Mahan-type precision...
...major achievement of the new bill is that it notably streamlines the Defense Secretary's operational command over the armed services, acting through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For its part, Congress keeps the power to challenge, within 30 days, presidential orders transferring functions from one service to another in peacetime, also keeps open the right of service chiefs to appeal directly to Congress...
...agency charged with inventing anti-integration laws until Redneck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meant for bigger things. To the unexploited office of commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T.V. (for Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long-lens camera, wiretap recorder, pocket mikes, etc.-to sleuth on any citizen suspected...
...bitter opposition, for the town, stood a majority of the Harris County Medical Society and its top officers. Mostly family doctors and general surgeons, they resented being frozen out of hospital staffs. were especially incensed at not being allowed to do even straightforward surgery in teaching hospitals. The county society demanded that the new Jefferson Davis rise on the hospital's present downtown site (on Buffalo Drive, four miles from the Medical Center), that the society should partly staff it and get one-third of the seats on its board. Result: every time Baylor University and the city fathers...