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Lemnitzer will replace ailing Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, 62, who underwent surgery for lung cancer last year. Twining, after serving the normal two-year term, stayed on for a second at President Eisenhower's urging. When Lemnitzer moves up, probably in late September, his successor as Army Chief of Staff will be Four-Star General George Henry Decker, 58, who is even calmer and quieter than Lemnitzer. "You could set a bomb off under his desk and he wouldn't turn a hair," a fellow officer once said. He, too, specialized in logistics during World...
...here, subtracting there, wound up authorizing $1.2 billion more for defense than the President had asked for. He announced that he had no intention of spending any of the extra money. But then the pressures began inside his own Administration. Defense Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining* returned from the aborted summit meeting in Paris to suggest that the U.S. ought to re-examine its defense setup and increase its "readiness." Just before the Republican Convention, Richard Nixon got together with Nelson Rockefeller in the meeting that produced the "Treaty of Fifth Avenue" (TIME cover...
Snorted Dr. Nathan Shock of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: "If these claims for procaine were true, you'd be adding ten years to your life every time your dentist fills a tooth. This woman is the Pied Piper of 1960, leading the aged instead of the young...
Chicago, which has swallowed as much violence without blinking as any other big city, draws the line at child murder. Ever since Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for the fun of it back in 1924, Chicago newspapers greet any child murder with a special kind of front-page fury. It sells papers, and, in the view of editors, may also help to keep crime investigators on their toes. Last week Chicago's newspapers had another chance to show the process at work...
Dozens of similar cracks, far and near to the downed plane, some made up on the spot, others refashioned from earlier monologues, clustered about the main stem before Sahl decided the time had come. Nathan Hale, he said, regretted that he had only one life to lose for his country. But Powers, ignoring that suicide needle, merely said: "This shatters all my plans...