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...uniform clothe a tough, efficient military mind. LeMay, who still expertly pilots jet tankers, commands the universal respect of his men. This respect is well-deserved, for he was largely responsible for building the Strategic Air Command to its present strength. But the General does not realize that the bomber is not a sacred part of the nation's defenses. Wedded to his bombers, LeMay jelously attempts to increase their number and importance at every possible opportunity...
...gates of the Wethersfield base, they had conspired to violate Britain's Official Secrets Act. Backing him up, the bench brushed aside the defendants' attempts to question witnesses on ethical rather than on factual grounds. One such witness was U.S. Scientist Linus Pauling, an ardent ban-the-bomber who had flown to London from California specially to testify on behalf of the defendants. When he was asked his views about civil defense, disarmament and nuclear war, Mr. Justice Havers ruled the questions out of order. Philosopher Bertrand Russell, still belligerent at 89, suffered a similar experience...
Died. Donald G. Nutter, 46, Montana's outspoken Republican Governor, a World War II bomber pilot who later served in the state senate, won the governorship in 1960 on a hold-the-budget plank, condemned the United Nations as "a forum for the enemies" and refused to proclaim U.N. Day in Montana; in the crash of a state Air National Guard C-47 into a Montana mountainside...
...moonlit night last week, three blips flashed on the radar screen of a Dutch Neptune patrol bomber some 60 miles southwest of New Guinea. They turned out to be three Indonesian torpedo boats racing at flank speed (40 knots) toward the Dutch New Guinea coast. Just over two hours later, after alerting two 2,000-ton Dutch frigates in the area, the Neptune dropped flares over the torpedo boats and was greeted with a salvo of antiaircraft fire. The Dutch ships' radar-locked 5-in. guns replied, sinking one of the Indonesian craft and forcing the others to flee...
...female voice sounds out of place in the cramped cockpit of a high-flying B58 bomber: "Oxygen quantity low. Oxygen quantity low. Descend to safe altitude.Monitor oxygen system until descent is accomplished...