The Chiefs

When President Eisenhower in 1953 named Admiral Arthur W. Radford chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there were some raised eyebrows in the U.S. Air Force: Radford was intimately and ardently identified with the Navy's assault in the 1949 "Revolt of the Admirals." But last week there was no surprise and no complaint from the airmen when the President reappointed able Strategist Arthur Radford as J.C.S. Chairman for two years; he had succeeded in establishing himself as concerned with the defense of the nation, not of the Navy.

The surprise came when President Eisenhower named Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke (see box) as Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, 60, who will retire Aug. 16. Burke, 53, will be the second youngest C.N.O. (Forrest Sherman was nine months younger) in U.S. history. He is outranked (until he gets his four stars) by seven full admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals.

Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining, 57, was reappointed for two years, and General Maxwell D. Taylor, also 53, had been nominated earlier (TIME, May 23) to take over from Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway, 60, when he retires June 30.

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