Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Might. This interthreading of military and diplomatic factors and forces, the basic foreign-policy concept of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, is ceaselessly advocated and practiced at high policy levels by Airman Radford. This Eisenhower concept, carrying downward through all levels of U.S. foreign policy, thus reflects a growing U.S. move to recapture the spirit of the logic of what the Navy's great theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, called "reasonable policy supported by might," limited by Theodore Roosevelt's word of caution, "I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that...
...Such marriage counseling often digs cruelly, but always humanely. One day a chaplain advised delay when he found out that the airman was deep in debt (which the British girl had not known). Another chaplain, after hearing the story of a well-off British girl who wanted to marry an airman with a grade-school education and go home with him to a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, also recommended delay. Still another chaplain tried to discourage the marriage of a Southern Negro to a British white girl, even to the point of going to the girl's parents...
...convenience, or even-broadly speaking-marriages brought off at the point of a shotgun. They are authorized and supervised under stern rules that many a Stateside parent could wish for, with the U.S. Air Force playing the role of a straitlaced, old-fashioned Dutch uncle. According to regulations, the airman must have his commanding officer's permission to marry, and the British girl must prove 1) that she is legally free to marry, and 2) that she can meet the requirements of U.S. immigration, e.g., that she has no police record, no subversive background and no mental or communicable...
...request) asks every possible pertinent question. How did they meet? Any previous marriages or children? How much sex experience does each have? How much education? How do their families feel about it? How do they view the responsibilities of marriage? If the chaplain approves, he advises the airman's unit commander whether the marriage should be permitted, delayed or discouraged (and few British parsons or registrars will marry them without the commanding officer's certificate of approval...
FLYING back from the South Pole to McMurdo Sound one day this month, Correspondent Edwin Rees of TIME'S Washington Bureau learned firsthand about the dread Antarctic whiteout, the dazzle of reflected light that erases all landmarks and horizons. It was, said an airman, "like flying inside a pingpong ball." The big Air Force troop carrier groped for the icy runway, plowed into a snowbank and slithered over the ice with nose down and tail high. "The feel and sound of 150,000 pounds of airplane sliding out of control is an experience I would like only once," said...