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...Symington (D-Mo.), former secretary of the Air Force, said yesterday the United States must take immediate steps to catch up with the Soviets...
...nation's biggest fraternal order. Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry Darby, ex-President Harry Truman. Such VIPs, duly enlisted, hopes Booster Land, will constitute "a band of leaders, men with Stardust on them, who will bring back the rank and file to the lodges...
Loophole. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, said the directive in fiscal 1958 could stop the purchase of all Convair B58 bombers and F106 jet fighters, halt the procurement of McDonnell's F-101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho...
...answer to the lagging re-enlistment problem in our armed forces will never be found by consulting know-nothings like ex-Secretary of the Air Force Symington, Ralph J. Cordiner, or any other top-drawer official in the U.S. The real answer is not money but a recognition of the enlisted man as a human being...
...Many Cooks. Apart from technicians who thought they would qualify for the raises, nobody seemed very happy about the Wilson order. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Secretary of the Air Force, rapped it as "patchwork." Less publicly, Pentagon brass agreed with him. Trying to solve the nagging re-enlistment problem with so skimpy a measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired...