ARMED FORCES: Brass Choir

With six months still to go before the next changeover in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon brass choir last week was tootling up introductory choruses of When the Chiefs Come Marchin' In. Top names in the game of musical chairs to be played next August:

Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, 61, old bomber pilot, completing his first two-year term as Joint Chiefs' chairman, has turned down tempting offers from private industry, will probably be named by President Eisenhower for a second term.

Air Force General Thomas White, 57, the Joint Chiefs' newest member (appointed 1957) will stay on as...

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