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...Nominated to succeed Admiral Arthur W. Radford as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in August: Air Force Chief Nathan Farragut Twining, 59, first airman to hold the nation's top military...
During World War II Officer Schriever rose from captain to colonel, flew 63 missions chiefly as a B-17 pilot in the Pacific, rose through varied air-logistics jobs to command the advanced echelon of Far East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing...
...airman thinks that the Air Force will let a big segment of the vital U.S. aircraft-engine industry wither away. But the immediate future looks thin. Said one Pentagon policymaker last week: "I would like to see a more even distribution. But for all these jet-engine people, it is just too bad that Pratt & Whitney is so uniformly good...
...Angeles, Philippines, U.S. Airman Joseph McAndries squatted heavily on a basketful of eggs, had to pay $4.29 damages to Vigilio Dizon, who asked McAndries to get up, got back only an Air Force cackle...
NATO's Norstad was not surprised by the long-expected British cutback, but he was nonetheless pained. In secret talks that preceded last week's announcement, Airman Norstad was concerned by the widespread tendency to say that ground troops no longer matter, since they can be compensated for by more technological weapons. If the British reason for reduction in force is economic, he pleaded, they owe it to their partners to say so. This the British did. This explanation, Norstad hoped, would not give other NATO nations an excuse to follow suit, since all of them except...