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...20th century free governments have enormous responsibilities. Their citizens look to them for protection against aerial attack, internal treachery, economic depression. Governments, in turn, must make harsh demands upon citizens...
After Mozart's aerial melodies, the concert came heavily back to earth with Charles Loeffler's Canticle of the Sun. It resembles the sound track of a Disney True Life Adventure. Augmented by two harps, celesta, and piano, the orchestra plays swooping glissandos and tortured Puccini-like harmonies; the soprano soloist must remain throughout in a palpitating ecstasy totally incongruous with St. Francis' humble text. At least Canticle had the benefit of Janet Wheeler's lovely voice and inspired instrumental work under conductor Kalman Novak...
Project Manager Strandberg was responsible for ordering $25 million worth of heavy equipment on his own say-so. He built a network of 26 radio stations to link 25 work camps with shelters for 6,500 men, set up a mile-long aerial tramway to haul 20-ton loads to inaccessible work sites, established what was then the world's biggest helicopter supply fleet outside the U.S. military. When he had manpower and equipment troubles, a phone call to Boise straightened them out. "My top tunnel man," says Strandberg, "was shifted from a job in Afghanistan to my team...
...Aerial Parades. As Jungk enters Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, he duly notes beside the gate the Latin motto, Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
...might celebrate his 86th birthday next August by parachuting into Great Salt Lake. The Utah Aeronautics Commission, to which Lee referred the request, turned thumbs down on MacFadden because he might splash too hard on the "heavy" salt water and thus harm the commission's policy of "aerial safety." Taking the news standing up, MacFadden rumbled: "If I really want to make the jump, I'll go out and make it. How can they stop...