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...alloy!" One Russian correspondent breathlessly reported that not once during their ordeal had any of the four said a harsh word to another. Pravda could not resist contrasting this with the despair, terror, "fears and sorrowful prayers" left behind in the diary of the missing World War II U.S. bomber crew whose bodies were recently found in the Libyan desert...
...deterrent is only as good as its reaction time. Today, the free world's one great deterrent is the Strategic Air Command's 24-hour-a-day, year-round ground alert system, a wonder of organizational achievement that keeps a rotating one-third of SAC bomber forces so sensitized that they can get off within 15 minutes' notice from any one of at least 65 SAC bases on the globe. Last week TIME Correspondent Ed Rees reported from SAC's Westover A.F.B. in Massachusetts on one B-52 alert crew in action...
...than he can for even a few seconds. Severe though the players' jolt was, it lasted only 5/1000 of a second. Sponsors of the experiment were engineers from the Stanley Aviation Corp., which is building the escape capsule for the Air Force's new mach 2 bomber, the B58 Hustler. In these capsules the pilot will be fired out of the plane by an explosive charge, will get another jolt when the capsule hits the outside air traveling at supersonic speeds...
...down their talk of gaps and lags -at least in public. General Thomas White, the Air Force chief, called Tommy Power's zeal "unfortunate," then muted his own appeals for more funds. While he also favored an air-alert program and greater speed in building the B70 supersonic bomber, White said that his own responsibilities were "relatively narrow" and that his requests had been refused by "my superiors" (i.e., Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army Chief of Staff, said...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Ghost Bomber: Lady Be Good recreates the life and death of the U.S. B-24 bomber that disappeared over Italy during World War II and was discovered in the Libyan desert 16 years later...