Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birds cannot be moved to nearby Kure or Pearl and Hermes. The only solution is that the Navy minimize its air activity, while retaining the waters as a submarine base, leaving the islands to their rightful owners or perhaps sharing the area with them on a more cooperative basis-Midway would be tops as a vacation spot...
...Air Force Academy who teach military history have read with great pleasure "Greatest & Last Battle of a Naval Era" [Oct. 26]. The author of the story of Leyte Gulf has done a very fine job of condensing this great battle. Your organization most courteously provided for us copies of your similar treatment of the Battle of Midway. We have used Mr. Chapin's diagrammatic portrayal of that battle in our classrooms. It has been most helpful...
JOHN A. KERIG Lieut. Colonel, U.S.A.F. U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo...
...reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think of as the ennobling virtues of man-his capacity for self-sacrifice, his readiness to help others...
Just before midnight, Dec. 3, Ike will fly out of Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in the VIP-styled Boeing 707 that took him to Western Europe in August. He will stop off in Rome to reassure Italy's Premier Antonio Segni that Italy, though not included in the Western summit, is not forgotten. He will also talk with Pope John XXIII. Thence via Turkey, Pakistan and Soviet-influenced Afghanistan (see map) the President will fly into New Delhi for five days of talks with Nehru and his advisers, for the opening of the U.S. exhibit, and a "very...