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John V. Naish, 53, resigned as president of General Dynamics Corp.'s big, highflying (Atlas missile, B58 bomber, Convair commercial jets) Convair division because of "irreconcilable differences in management philosophy." Brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, Jack Naish gave up a profitable investment counseling firm in 1941 to become an aircraft riveter at Northrop, worked up to works manager in five years. In 1949 he joined Convair, shot up to president in 1958. He liked to run his billion-dollar division his own way. Since Frank Pace Jr. took over as General Dynamics chairman, more and more of Convair...
Reproach turned to anger when a U.S.-built Chinese Nationalist patrol bomber overflew Burma, apparently trying to drop supplies to the fleeing Kuomintang forces. Burmese fighters attacked it, and it crashed over the border in Thailand. But in the course of the battle, one Burmese fighter was shot down, another damaged. The Burmese government brought the body of the dead pilot back to Rangoon for ceremonial burial. Burma sent off a protest...
...Senator Stuart Symington, the Democrats' chief defense specialist had charged: "A very substantial missile gap does exist and the Eisenhower Administration apparently is going to permit this gap to increase." Ike found the attacks so galling that in his final message to Congress last month he said: "The bomber gap of several years ago was always a fiction, and the missile gap shows every sign of being the same...
Under the vigorous direction of Dana Reed '43, the 1943 Album had ammassed a profit of some $1,500--a profit which the board members of later hoped to split up among themselves. After graduating from Harvard, the album staff joined the war effort. Reed became a Liberator bomber pilot; on Armistice Day, 1944, his plane was lost in bad weather somewhere over northern Italy. When the Album staff reassembled after the war, the profit motive had lost its allure. Eric Larabee, now editor of Horizon magazine remarked recently, "We suddenly had the impulse that does come to people occasionally...
Rigid & Regular. When their six-jet modified bomber lifted clear of the airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland...