Word: wilson
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...friend and No. 1 aide, Deputy Attorney General William Pierce Rogers, who at 44 will be the youngest member of the Cabinet. It was the third major change in the Eisenhower Cabinet in three months (others: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson for George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy for Charles Wilson) and brought the average Cabinet age down from...
...place," said a Washington wag. "It is a technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense Secretary Neil McElroy would henceforth require weekly missile reports from his service chiefs. The importance even of the reports was open to question in view of the fact that Wilson had been getting much the same sort of carbon copies for more than 18 months. Moreover, in direct...
Last November, as a curb on interservice missile rivalry, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson issued a firm order limiting the Army to ranges of 100 miles for ground-to-air (antiaircraft) missiles and 200 miles for ground-to-ground (artillery) missiles. The Army went on developing an intermediate range (1,500 miles) ballistic missile in hope that the Army's missile mission would be broadened later on. Result: continued costly rivalry between the Air Force's Thor and its Army cousin Jupiter...
...settle on an IRBM to go into assembly-line production, Wilson set up a nicely balanced committee made up of Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, Army Major General John Medaris and Wilson's special missiles assistant, William Holaday. The problem was urgent. With IRBM production soon to be vital for NATO defense, and with Russia apparently well along in IRBM development, the President and the National Security Council had tagged the IRBM program with top priority. But the problem was also agonizingly tough. The Thor-Jupiter committee started meditating last August, but one of the first decisions announced...
...Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding the tocsin of the freedom, of the press and invoking the shade of Woodrow Wilson. The Trib's young (32) Editor-Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid vowed that the paper would carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Said Columnist Torre: "I feel like Dred Scott today...