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...Approved in the House Armed Services Committee $14.8 billion for new aircraft, missiles and ships, along with a proposal to change the name of the Military Air Transport Service to the Military Airlift Command...
...fellow to watch out for is Scott. Only last summer Scott was the dashing, heroic flyer in Leon Uris' sweaty saga about the Berlin airlift. Now here he is again, successfully making the transition to civilian life as an idealistic, heroic young automotive executive. His battles in Detroit, working for Author Gilbert, are as simple as when Uris used him in Berlin. He fights for honest salesmanship and for improvements in the product. He indignantly opposes a loudmouthed supplier who is bribing and blackmailing Tony. At the end it looks very much as though Scott will marry...
...knuckle under to harassment. In the nuclear age, Gibraltar's strategic importance has sharply diminished, but the symbolic value of the fortress known to Homer as the Pillar of Hercules remains. Said one British official: "We'll keep the Rock if we have to supply it by airlift until the Spanish cut out this nonsense...
Procurement of the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber (formerly the TFX) has been Pentagon-approved, and the prototype has taken to the air far ahead of schedule in highly successful tests. Money for developing a cargo plane (the C-5A) able to airlift 750 men has been approved. New nuclear surface ships may well be okayed by McNamara as part of his doctrine of flexibility...
...ICBMs, more than 300 nuclear-armed Po'aris missiles borne by submarines, more than 900 long-range SAC bombers. In the past four years, he said, ready-to-fire nuclear strategic power has tripled. Special Forces to fight "the undeclared, twilight wars of today" have expanded eightfold, troop airlift capacity has doubled...