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...what's happening there right now?" demanded Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker in the Pentagon last week as an officer passed along the latest message from the troops in Little Rock. Another officer had an idea: "Why not turn on the television set?" A set was wheeled up, flicked on, and promptly revealed members of the 101st Airborne Division stiffly at parade rest outside a peaceful Central High School. Brucker grunted with satisfaction. Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor, onetime commander of the 101st, peered hard at the soldiers. "They look good, sharp," he said, then broke out unbelievingly...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26--Amid confusion in the Pentagon, Secretary of the Army Brucker tonight countermanded an order to Army units in the South to train for riot duty and prepare to speed to scenes of civil disorder...
This officer had been vague about the date of the order, saying merely that it went out "some time ago." It remained for Brucker, in his later statement to disclose that the order was not issued "before Little Rock" at all but went out yesterday, and was inspired by the troubles in Little Rock...
...special ceremony in the Pentagon's inner courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available...
After that, the Reds picked up their old habit of giving their managers a fast shuffle. Only one, Deacon Bill McKechnie in 1940, won them another World Series. When his teams started losing, too, the parade of pilots resumed-Johnny Neun, Bucky Walters, Luke Sewell, Earle Brucker, Colonel Buster Mills and Rogers Hornsby. Then the Redlegs found George Robert Tebbetts...