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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...duty hours on overseas tours, studied Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, even Chinese. During a South Pacific tour, his carousing comrades came upon him at night, studying by candlelight a book called Micronesian Languages, When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer performance, for all-out mastery of Air Force doctrine and operations. "White," says a former commander...
...sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that he has his problems too. Among them...
...genial cucumber of a man known to his wide circle of hoodlum friends as the Professor, was responsible for a variety of functions. He had once been an instructor at New York University in the philosophy of education. The Professor became private tutor to the children of only the best gangsters, e.g., Squillante's godfather Albert Anastasia, Willie and Salvatore Moretti, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese. (He taught "Socrates to the moderns," but not Machiavelli, he added thoughtfully, "because the philosophy of the end justifying the means is immoral.") This duty followed long after the time he was jailed...
With a reputation extending beyond his native land, Novelist Tibor Dery, ailing and aged at 64. is far and away the most famed writer in Hungary today. In his best-known book, The Unfound Phrase, Dery expounded his own political philosophy in the fictional terms of a wealthy Budapest lawyer who turned to Communism as his nation's only hope. Too incendiary for publication in the days of the prewar Horthy fascist dictatorship, it was circulated widely in manuscript before going to press ten years later...