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Just as dismaying was the fact that the commissioning of Constellation will be delayed at least a year, and with it the Navy's tightly scheduled combat readiness program. The largest of the Forrestal class carriers, with a capacity of 100 planes (including 15 of the lethal A3D jet...
Attorney Clark M. Clifford, Kennedy's liaison man with the outgoing Eisenhower Administration; former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter; former Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric; Manhattan Attorney Fowler Hamilton; Marx Leva, counsel to the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal.
Filling the Gap. The strategic targeting plan stands as the newest monument to a reserved and dedicated man who, combining outer velvet with inner iron, has proved to be one of the ablest and most valuable officials in the Eisenhower Administration. In the five-sided Penta gon, where most questions...
Like Forrestal, Gates came to Government by way of finance. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Gates entered his millionaire father's investment banking firm, Philadelphia's Drexel & Co. By the time he went to war in 1942 (he served as a Navy intelligence officer), Gates was...
Suicides & Storms. Though the whole of Morison's history displays U.S. productive might and organizing skill as decisive in both oceans, this last chapter is as full as all the others of men's ordeal by storm and by battle. When Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey led his...