Word: billete
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...mayors were still flying when their aircraft stopped at the ramp at Tyndall. Mayor Healy, in fact, swayed so much as he egg-walked down the steps that an officer stood by to catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a motel 30 miles away, the two mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell...
...unyielding Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, his own light-colonel sister (retired) in Air Force arms. Colonel Smith last week dropped her opposition to Jimmy Stewart. The Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will, if a national emergency comes, be grounded in a public-relations billet. If any proof were needed that Stewart will be a thoroughly competent armchair general, it came last week in a fine CBS-TV documentary program (Cowboy Five Seven) about the Strategic Air Command. The filmed show's producer-director-narrator: Stewart. His promotion will be official after certain Senate approval...
...with 1,900 other colonels up for promotion, was Stewart advanced to one-star rank? Colonel Stewart, though he flies his own Cessna 310, had put in only 39 days of reserve training since World War II; yet he had been assigned to a key M-day billet as deputy director of operations at SAC headquarters. Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, Air Force personnel boss, disagreed with the Senator. "Stewart has made a great contribution to the Air Force," he said. "We don't think we should promote people to general officer [merely] on the basis...
...billet, Director Walker's task will be to shift the Washington National Gallery's emphasis from collecting (80% of gallery space is already filled) to the development of a center for popular art education and scholarly research...
Amidst his preparations to lead a New Zealand expedition to the Antarctic in December, Sir Edmund Hillary, beekeeper and co-conqueror of Mount Everest, spread the word that he has a vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...