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...CATHOLIC ISSUE. Time and again Johnson told with all-out vibrato the story of the death, in a World War II bomber explosion, of Jack Kennedy's brother Joe and his copilot, Lieut. Wilford J. Wiley of Fort Worth. Cried Lyndon hoarsely: "When those boys went out to die so that you could live, nobody asked them what church they went...
...Bomber pilots are against those tell-tale streaks known as contrails-and in the future they may not have to worry about them; see SCIENCE, Death of a Contrail...
...should ever come to nuclear retaliation, the U.S. has to be sure that the right targets are chosen in advance, that each target is assigned to some bomber or missile force, and that striking power is not wasted through duplication. As long as the Strategic Air Command held a near monopoly on the U.S.'s long-range striking power, strategic targeting was no major Pentagon problem. But the Navy's long-range carrier bombers were hard to fit in, and the Air Force had no authority to assign targets to Navy units. The development of the Navy...
...message to Congress and detailed later on by Defense Secretary Thomas Gates-called for spending about $476 million more, $150 million of it in fiscal 1961 (ending next June 30). The money will be distributed among a variety of projects: developing the B70 super-bomber, modernizing Army equipment, building more Polaris submarines and missiles, increasing airlift capability, expanding the Strategic Air Command airborne alert, and speeding up development of the spy-satellite Samos. They are all expensive items, and the extra money will not go far among them...
...Call. But the ferret flight that left from the U.S. base in the English town of Brize Norton on July 1 was destined to become a brief but acrimonious international incident. The plane was an RB-47, the reconnaissance version of the Air Force's workhorse medium jet bomber. It was scheduled to fly the routine ferret run off the Soviet Arctic coast, a triangular course (see map) around the Barents Sea plotted to keep the ferret plane at least 75 miles away from Soviet territory. At 3:03 p.m., upon reaching the appointed spot about 300 miles northeast...