Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADDITION OF DIVINE GUIDANCE. Stenciled at the top of the Vanguard, near the satellite itself, was HAVE BALL, WILL ORBIT. And at the base someone had printed three words that summed up the hopes of all missiledom: LOVE LIFTED ME. Vanguard was ready...
...bill also adopts a Cordiner report recommendation to create two super pay grades of enlisted men, E-8 and ?9, to which a limited number of exceptionally experienced and able master sergeants or chief petry officers could be promoted. Base pay for E-8 would be up to $400 a month...
...wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported to his flight leader: "This is Garfield 13. I am aborting the mission." He explained why, radioed his story for relay to his home base...
...week's end the two "good officers" had brought France and Tunisia closer to an agreement than at any time since the bombing of Sakiet. Despite his loud public defiance of Tunisian demands, Gaillard had agreed in private to withdraw all French forces in Tunisia to the naval base of Bizerte, even to discuss the future status of Bizerte itself. The chief remaining sticking point was Tunisian insistence that any settlement must be accompanied by a general discussion of the Algerian war. The French, still clinging to the notion that Algeria is a purely domestic problem, flatly reject...
Died. Air Force Brigadier General James W. McCauley, 57, vice commander of the Eastern Air Defense Force, architect of air warning systems, World War II commander of the 70th Fighter Wing (Europe); of a heart attack; at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh...