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Planemakers' sales and profits plunged downward at a speed faster than light. Republic Aviation, which stubbornly clung to the airplane and currently relies on its hot F-IO5 fighter-bomber for 98% of its business, has seen its sales dip from $547 million in 1955 to $215 million last year. The three big companies that winged into the commercial jet market were also hard hit: Boeing, Douglas and Convair spent some $700 million to develop their big jets, and only Boeing is in sight of the break-even point...
Gary went on to become an authentic hero as a bomber pilot. Of his entire squadron, only half a dozen came out of the war alive. Admirable sentimentalist that he is, Gary prefers to believe that his mother took care of him. Regularly throughout the war, he had gotten letters from Mama, the one human being who could keep him going. But when he got back to Nice, a captain and the hero his mother had always said he would be, he learned that she had died of diabetes 3½ years before. But before her death, and knowing...
Kennedy's personal military adviser is General Maxwell Taylor, a leading exponent of flexible warfare (TIME cover, July 28). Last month the Defense Department merged Stateside Army units and Air Force fighter-bomber squadrons to increase vital air-ground coordination on the battlefield. In appropriations, the Army got an extra $1.4 billion with instructions to spend it mainly on the men and materiel of limited war. Around the world, Army units are getting a badly needed transfusion of modern equipment: the fully automatic M-14 rifle (which finally is replacing the famed M-1 of World...
...transportation to the fighting front and close tactical support when it got there. But the Army and the Air Force all too often failed to work well together; air-ground teamwork sagged badly, despite the bloody lesson of World War II that the rifleman needed help from the fighter-bomber. Unable to count on TAC airlift for practice jumps, paratroop commanders talked wryly of chartering their own transports...
...jumped Canon Lewis J. Collins of St. Paul's, a passionate ban-the-bomber with no love for Dr. Stopford, who has publicly opined that nuclear war would be preferable to Communist domination. Cried Canon Collins: "The Crown, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has nominated the Bishop of Peterborough as the new Bishop of London. The nomination has been announced in the press. Now we are called upon to elect a new bishop, and custom requires that we pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our task. But we know that if we fail...