Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone to the National Presbyterian Church), found time late in the day for turkey with Mamie (who will not go on the big trip), Son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara (who will), the four Eisenhower grandchildren and two unannounced visitors. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell and her husband. Producer Frederick Brisson. (The Eisenhowers, confided Roz Russell to newsmen afterwards, did not serve cranberries, settled...
...Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll and his team made a study of black-marketing by U.S. personnel in Turkey at NATO's southeastern headquarters, which was apparently so hot that the Pentagon has steadfastly refused to make a line of it public...
Since his investigation began, 23 officers and noncoms have been transferred out of Turkey with more to follow. The Pentagon has refused to say whether any were guilty of misdeeds or merely of failure to exercise sufficient responsibility. Several of the officers complain that the opposition Turkish press, which is currently on an anti-American kick, has played the story as if all were culprits. Among the 13 officers reassigned are five Izmir unit commanders and four finance officers; among the ten sergeants was the personal secretary of NATO's Izmir commander, Lieut. General Paul Harkins...
...place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while Thors go to Great Britain. In second-generation, solid-pro-pellant missiles, the Navy's submarine-launched Polaris fits the same general specifications as the Air Force's land-based Minuteman. By Pentagon estimates, $1.5 billion could be saved over the years by a combined program...
However, traditional turkey dinners will be served at Lowell House, Quincy House, or at the Freshman Union, all of which will remain open for the holiday...