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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS 9-11 p.m.). The War Lover, Columbia's 1962 rendering of John Mersey's chilling novel about a World War II B-17 bomber pilot who lives to kill, filmed on location in England and starring Steve McQueen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 21, 1966 | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

Died. Major General Irving L. Branch, 53, commander of the Flight Test Center at California's Edwards Air Force Base, where he headed the X-15 rocket aircraft program and in 1964 staged the first test flight of the experimental B70 supersonic bomber; when the T-38A supersonic jet trainer he was piloting crashed into Puget Sound during a bad-weather instrument landing at Seattle's Boeing Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1966 | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral oration from Julius Caesar, although most of the time she plays second banana to Maria II. A tomboyish Mata Hari who spent her childhood in Ireland as a mad bomber, Bardot gets the flashier jobs, manning a machine gun, planting high explosives, swinging from tree to tree like Tarzan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Carnival in Brio | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

Died. General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr., 56, recently retired boss of the Tactical Air Command (1961-65), a much-decorated bomber pilot (Midway, Tokyo) who took over TAC at the height of the Berlin Wall crisis, turned it from a relatively small outfit into a major arm of U.S. airpower with 1,400 jet fighters, its own tankers and transports, and the ability to perform any tactical mission from the 1964 Congo missionary rescue to ground support in Viet Nam; of cancer; at Homestead Air Force Base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1965 | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

Died. General Thomas Dresser White, 64, Air Force Chief of Staff, from 1957 to 1961; of leukemia; in Washington. An unrelenting advocate of ever stronger air power who fought vainly for the Air Force's experimental B70 supersonic bomber, General White felt that rigid reliance on missiles was "tantamount to the Maginot Line" and that the theory of mutual deterrence gave a false sense of invulnerability. "The only safe strategy," he said, was "imbalance-with a vast preponderance on our side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1965 | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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