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...complaint ran, had pulled a diplomatic blooper, and the European allies were miffed. The blooper: Stassen, after promising Western partners that he would consult with them before making any specific disarmament proposals to the Russians, had launched into private talks with Russia's disarmament representative, Valerian Zorin (architect of the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia...
...Chief architect of the new approach is tough Lieut. General James M. Gavin, Army Research and Development boss, who before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week flung a basic reverse-twist challenge to Air Force doctrine: "In the missile era, the man who controls the land will control the space above it. The control of land areas [rather than air] will be decisive...
...served in a dozen Cabinets, holding such portfolios as Finance. Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mendés-France ever since within the Radical Socialist Party. The chief architect of Suez intervention, he is 100% behind the muscular Algerian policy...
...fateful meeting was the Battle of Midway, fought 15 years ago this week. It was one of the decisive battles of history, a fight no less monumental than Salamis, or Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet...
...dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers and theater stars to entertain...