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Last week Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, 54, called seven top U.S. generals and admirals from command posts around the world to a meeting at the Pentagon and set forth a new plan. Gates is a normally reticent fellow who served as Under Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense before taking over the top defense job late last year. He came out of the meeting calling it "my greatest decision in my eight years in the Pentagon...
...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 War II, but won a Silver Star in combat in New Guinea. Army Comptroller in 1952-55 and later commander of the U.N. forces...
Army. Of the 21 men to become Army Chief of Staff since the system was set up in 1903, he is the seventh who never attended West Point...
Sweeping Clean. Under Mayor Ethel Stacy, wife of a retired rancher, the women briskly set about cleaning up the mess. By delaying municipal paychecks, the women wiped out Walsenburg's $5,333.75 debt of back taxes owed to the state...
Showpiece. To demonstrate to the world through this uncomplicated flyer the "insane aggressiveness'' of the U.S., Nikita Khrushchev had set up a show trial that evoked memories of Stalin's purge productions of the 1930s. All morning long in the cold Moscow rain, the black ZIM limousines rolled up to the court to disgorge Soviet Russia's Reddest-blooded aristocrats, including Khrushchev's daughter Elena. Out of the unaccustomed luxury of one of the ZIMs stepped Powers' wife, Barbara, 25. poised and cool in black, flanked by her mother and two lawyers. From another...