Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith-O'Donnell feud started two years ago, when Senator Smith, annoyed at the Air Force's failure to promote her administrative assistant from colonel to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve, retaliated by blocking the promotion of Cinemactor James Stewart, much-decorated World War II bomber colonel, to Reserve stardom. In defending the Air Force decisions, O'Donnell got Senator Smith unforgivingly sore...
...just signed a $7,000,000 aid agreement with the Soviet Union, and has been careful to express no official sympathy for the Tibetan rebels. But the most surprising change is a sudden shift in the long-embittered relations between India and Pakistan. Even though an Indian jet bomber was shot down last month when it violated Pakistani air space, both nations are doing fresh thinking about the future. Pakistan's President Ayub Khan publicly urged that they should "learn to live like good neighbors" without "frightening or fearing each other." In the light of Tibetan events, he said...
...Born: Cambridge. Ohio; attended Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio (1939-42), but quit to enter service in 1942. Glenn is the Astronauts' top-ranking, most experienced officer (more than 5,000 flight hours, 1,500 in jets), has seen the most combat (59 World War II fighter-bomber missions in the Pacific, 100 missions, three MIGs downed in Korea), carries the weightiest decorations (five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 19 Air Medals), is the most famed of the lot (he won headlines in 1957 as the first man to fly supersonically from Los Angeles to New York-piloting a Chance...
...with oncoming enemy ballistic missiles by exploding nuclear warheads high above the earth? Could the Soviet Union use high-up explosions to cheat on a test-ban agreement? How much would high-up nuclear explosions disturb radio communications and the radar detection that is indispensable to U.S. defenses against bomber or missile attack...
...NUCLEAR BOMBER will be designed by Convair, which won Government nod over Lockheed. The near-sonic plane, to be powered by a G.E. nuclear plant, would be roughly the size...