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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...
...eliminate one half course in favor of independent study. In the fall of 1955, 19 students used it, and in the spring of last year, 17. Nine participated last fall, and while 20 are now under the program, there is no sign of any consistent upward trend, or any especially meaningful number using the program...
...average = 100), thus stood .2 above December, 1.1 above September, and a sharp 3.6 above January 1956. The 3.6 climb in a single year seemed all the more creepy by contrast with the index's behavior during the first three Eisenhower years: twitching upward in some months and downward in others, it gained only .7 from early 1953 to early...
Nine times out of ten the Joint Chiefs reach agreement and pass their recommendations upward to civilian authority for the final decisions, a red line slashed across the bottom of each of the white policy papers to signify J.C.S. agreement. When the Chiefs disagree, it is the job of the chairman, Admiral Radford, to press them, gently or not gently, or to report the disagreement to his civilian boss, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. "What do you think, Raddy?" Wilson will then invariably ask. Invariably, Radford will produce a written reply, saying, "Here are a few thoughts...
...made such a hit at Academy hops that his class Lucky Bag terms him "a pink-cheeked Apollo." After graduation and four years in battleships, Raddy got into the Navy's second postwar aviation class at Pensacola, Fla., won his wings in the fall of 1920, moved steadily upward to command the crack Fighter Squadron I aboard the new carrier Saratoga...