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Keeping the Receipt. These were tough charges indeed for West Pointer Nickerson, who earned a master's degree at the California Institute of Technology, won a chestful of medals for gallantry in action in World War II. Nickerson, moving upward through Army Ordnance to his big job at Redstone Arsenal, shared many Army officers' gnawing fear that the Army was being shouldered more and more to the sidelines of the U.S. defense setup. Specifically, Nickerson felt that the Army's Jupiter, a 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was more promising than the Air Force...
...Eisenhower Administration pinned its hopes on him as the keystone of its new Middle East policy, backed his development programs with grants of $26 million, helped him lever the 80,000 troops of the British, grumbling, out of Suez. The U.S. sent as ambassador to Cairo a young West Pointer, Henry Byroade, who understood and liked Nasser as a fellow soldier. "Egypt stands today in every respect with the West," said Nasser, and Byroade sent back to Washington sympathetic and admiring reports. Even the Israelis considered Nasser the most progressive of Arab leaders, nursed a hope that he might lead...
...siege of heavy rain and a scent-bedeviling east wind, many dogs got confused, but one liver-and-white pointer bitch felt right at home on Maytag's acres. Bouncing eagerly through the sedge grass. Just Rite Roz flushed her first covey 15 minutes after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired...
...Staged at Grand Junction, Tenn. last week and won by Wayriel's Allegheny Sport, a pointer owned by R. W. Wiggins and the Rev. J. A. Bays of Knoxville, Tenn...
...West Pointer Byroade, 43, a promising young Army brigadier general in World War II, said he thought the cancellation a "mistake," but frankly granted that his was a limited view: "An ambassador cannot know all the factors that may influence the final decision." Nonetheless, Byroade opened up a subject that could easily explode in headlines when the Senate gets down to its promised review of U.S. Middle Eastern policy...