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...Wavering. Long Moscow's only correspondent in Washington, Todd now shares the load with Mikhail Fedorov, 31, Tass's Ivan-come-lately Washington bureau chief (TIME, Nov. 21), who covers the White House, the Pentagon, Treasury and other agencies, and with Pittsburgh-born Jean Montgomery,*fortyish, who reports for Tass from Capitol Hill. To newsmen who wonder why Todd works for Russia, Todd has a carefully double-negative reply: he would not be working for the Russians if he did not believe they are for a peaceful world...
...paper supposed to do? Merely balancing accusation with denial no longer seems enough." In groping toward a solution of the problem, the Times has been running more bylined interpretive pieces by correspondents and such staff experts as Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin, whose articles carry as much weight in the Pentagon as Reston's do in the State Department...
...Privateer could have been 350 miles off course in the Baltic, even under the worst of weather conditions-but if she was well offshore she had a perfect right to be flying there. Knowing that all long-distance patrol planes are equipped with reconnaissance radar, Navy brass in the Pentagon were certain that she had not disobeyed standing orders to stay well clear of Russian and Russian satellite territory. And she couldn't have opened fire on a seagull because there were no guns aboard except the pilot's personal .45 automatic. The next logical question...
Officials at the Defense Department, who come and go, usually enter into their duties with no more ceremony than attends a taxicab wedding in Las Vegas, Nev.-a routine swearing-in, generally in Louis Johnson's Pentagon office dining room, congratulations from several dozen officeholders, kisses from relatives, and bored coverage by a handful of newsmen. But things were different last week when Chief Justice Fred Vinson administered the oath of office to lanky Frank Pace Jr., 37, new Secretary of the Army...
...Washington until September, as a special presidential assistant to study the dollar gap, before taking up his new job as president of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. ¶ Budget Director Frank Pace Jr., the youngest (37) high official in the capital, was moved over to the Pentagon to replace Gray as Army Secretary. An independently wealthy Arkansan, graduate of Princeton and Harvard, Pace likes working for the Government, has done so for four years...