J.C.S.

Letters sent to the cities on Wednesday tell officials in other cities that the contracts are illegal and urge officials to cut ties with J.C.S.

Calls to Clanton city officials, J.C.S. and their attorneys were not immediately returned Wednesday afternoon.

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.

The result for Radford was that Ike forgot the old feuds, decided to jump Radford all the way to replace the retiring General Bradley as J.C.S. chairman.

Radford and his Chiefs met daily, and a small task force of J.C.S. staff officers kept 24-hour vigil in the Pentagon's underground command post.