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...Field, he moved in 1953 to New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base, where he found no need for "moonlight requisitions." He got a comfortable clutter of laboratory buildings, sufficient equipment and a good staff. Now, the nine officers (including their chief, Stapp) attached to Holloman's Aero-Medical Field Laboratory hold 24 advanced scientific degrees among them...
After two days shaking off his Washington tensions, the President left for five days at the mountain ranch of his good friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen. Ike had hoped to commute regularly by air between Denver and the ranch this summer, and had brought his twin-engined Aero Commander plane along as a taxi, but Presidential Pilot William Draper felt that the thin mountain air and the sudden thunderstorms made flying too risky, so Ike reluctantly made the 75-mile trip by Cadillac...
...respect to the striving to find a solution to the complicated problem of international control . . . one cannot but say at the same time that the real effectiveness of such measures would not be great. During unofficial talks with the leaders of the U.S. Government, we straightforwardly declared that aero-photography cannot give the expected results, because both countries stretch over vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything...
...plane, an Aero Commander 560, was built by the Aero Design and Engineering Co., has been tested and certified for presidential airlifting by the Air Force as well as the Secret Service. (On one test flight the plane was flown from Bethany, Okla. to Washington on one engine.) It has a cruising speed of 200 m.p.h., can accommodate two passengers and two crewmen (on comfortable seats upholstered in blue nylon). Its cost to the Government: approximately $75,000. The President has not christened the plane yet, but the crew calls...
...Lamb easily matches the conventional picture of a capitalist. His Edward Lamb Enterprises, Inc. includes six radio and TV stations, the Erie (Pa.) Dispatch and six manufacturing concerns, with a total value of more than $30 million. He flies to plush ski resorts in his blue-grey Aero Commander, has an autograph collection valued at more than $50,000, and lives in a 126-year-old, $300,000 mansion. But to the Federal Communications Commission, Ted Lamb's capitalistic coloration is suspect. For ten weeks it has been investigating charges that Lamb committed perjury when he stated...