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Fountain displays have slopped more than 150 tons of water onto the stage per day. Niagara Falls once poured out of the wings. A full-sized train chugged uphill. One show used a helicopter, another a four-engine bomber, and a third shot Sputniks into the flies. Chariots have been drawn by live horses galloping on treadmills. Ships have been torpedoed and sunk, descending via the huge, tripartite stage elevator. The Christmas show always features a creche program, and at Eastertime the stage turns into a cathedral, and the girls of the corps de ballet turn into nuns, forming...
...basic job of the Air Force has remained the same as it was under the Eisenhower Administration: to deliver the nuclear deterrent that is still the keystone of U.S. defense. That deterrent now rings the world, includes three U.S. bases containing 27 Atlas intercontinental missile sites and 73 manned-bomber sites in the U.S., plus a network of overseas bomber bases and five European bases for intermediate-range nuclear missiles. To make this deterrent even stronger, President Kennedy wants to give the Air Force another $86 million to retain two or three air wings of medium-range B-47 bombers...
Many an Air Force general would far prefer to spend the money for more of Boeing's intercontinental B-52s, the backbone of the bomber force. The Administration now plans to stop buying the B-52 in 1962. The Air Force was also disappointed that President Kennedy did not ask for any step-up in design studies of the 2,000-m.p.h. B70 bomber...
...semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting a man to the moon, they gonna need the money...
...third supersonic bomber, the medium-range Blinder. First seen in 1957 in prototype, the production model at last week's flypast featured a new tail turret, radar and radar-jamming equipment...