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...billion increase in the defense budget, plus a $500 million civil defense program, "to meet the physical danger in which America lives." U.S long-range missiles are "inferior in number" to the Russians', U.S. bomber bases are "defenseless," limited-war forces are "inadequate in strength and mobility...
...Boeing and Douglas jets. Its big advantages are speed-some 40 m.p.h. faster than the 707 and the DC-8-and what promises to be impressive economy of operation. Powered by four commercial versions of the General Electric J-jg engine that pushes the Air Force 6-58 Hustler bomber to Mach 2 speeds, the 880 has so much power that even with a full passenger load it needs only 5,800 ft. of runway for take-off (v. 8,000 ft. for bigger jets), can serve almost any airport that handles four-engined planes...
...cold-war game, the U.S. knew that it was appallingly weak on its intelligence of the U.S.S.R. This meant that the U.S. had no real basis for shaping its own deterrent force. The U.S. Air Force thought for years that it had to defend itself against a big Russian bomber force when the Soviets actually had switched to missiles. In the dawning age of ICBMs, the U.S. itself became a certain target with all major defense installations well known; yet U.S. forces did not know of any military targets except major Soviet cities, and precious little about the new ones...
...icky-wicket comments to nearly every royal occasion since World War II, including the funeral of King George VI, the wedding and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A merry, good-tempered pro, he was the BBC's first war correspondent, even broadcast from a Royal Air Force bomber on a raid over Berlin. In 1945, he was arrested in Berlin by suspicious Russian soldiers, won his freedom by taking advantage of certain physical resemblances, gloweringly insisting that he was "a Churchill...
...years ago, at the height of Indonesia's abortive rebellion, a black B-26 bomber roared over the port of Amboina, dropped its bombs before it was hit by antiaircraft fire. Out popped the pilot, a 31-year-old Floridian named Allen Lawrence Pope. His parachute fouled in a palm tree and he lay helpless with a broken thigh until Indonesian troops found and arrested...