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...Supremacy. The engine is of enormous importance to the U.S. in the global race to dominate the skies. As Rentschler and every other airman knows: "The engine is the key to air supremacy." To help the U.S. gain air supremacy, the armed forces are already rushing plans for production of new fighters and big intercontinental bombers-Boeing's giant B-52 and a sweptback-wing version of Convair's B-36-to use the new jet's fuel economy and power...
...production race is still far from won. And no airman thinks the U.S. has the lead it needs in the jet-engine race for air supremacy. But all airmen think it will have to get it-and keep it-to survive. Says Fred Rentschler: "There is no such thing as a second best air force. There is the best, or nothing...
...think, defies analysis. It has almost no action, its characters have no individuality (they are called "The Speaker," "A One" and such), it has a chorus and a musical background, the audience is expected to join in and repeat certain lines. The ostensible topic of discussion is a crashed airman who is on the verge of death, but Brecht merely uses him as a reflector for his ideas about death, man's place on earth, and his relationship to modern technology. The tone of the piece is didactic...
...Washington, Air Marshal Lord Tedder, 60, deputy to Eisenhower in SHAEF and Britain's most famed airman, announced his resignation as Britain's representative on the standing military committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. On returning to England, he will take up new, nonmilitary duties as vice chairman of the governors of BBC and chancellor of Cambridge University...
...CHARGE OF BANK ROBBERY, the News dug up an old picture of Reagan talking to one Byron Kennedy, an ex-Air Force officer who had been arrested on a charge of robbing an East Los Angeles bank. (Reagan had posed with Kennerly nine years before, when the airman was technical adviser on one of Reagan's pictures...