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...inarticulate. In papers, they resort to the all-purpose sentence that doesn't recommend anything, but merely waffles over disagreements within their ranks." They think that the military too often fall back on tradition and intuition rather than clearheaded analysis. After Whiz Kids studies, the RS-70 bomber program was curtailed, though Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay is thoroughly convinced that the bomber's promised ability to fly farther and faster will be an essential ingredient in future U.S. aerial superiority...
...industrialist, a middle-class merchant's son (born George Horatio Nelson, no kin to the naval hero) who won his peerage by taking over the Depression-stalled English Electric Co. Ltd. in 1933, building it into a giant combine (assets: $250 million) producing everything from the Canberra jet bomber to the smallest vacuum tubes; in Stafford...
Scowling ferociously, Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, 55, wanted the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to get one thing straight. "I object to having the term 'bomber man' applied to me," he said, even as he was urging Congress to lay out $491 million for the long-range RS-70 bomber, $320 million more than the Administration wanted. "I will use the most effective weapons system that will do the job. If that's kiddie cars, I'll use kiddie cars...
Back only 24 hours from a Grecian honeymoon with Director Tony Richardson, veteran Ban-the-Bomber Vanessa Redgrave, 25, mounted a Hyde Park soapbox and declared: "I would like to be home with my husband, but if the bomb is dropped and I have played no part in protesting against it, I would be as guilty as the man who pressed the button." At the edge of the heckling crowd stood Actor Sir Michael Redgrave, 54, Vanessa's father. "I believe in what she says in principle," he said, "but I am against this civil disobedience. It could...
...picked by Charles de Gaulle to break the S.A.O. is General Michel Fourquet, 47, a slight, dark-haired air force officer who was famed under the nom de guerre of Colonel Gori in World War II, when he led the Free French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed...