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...putting such words into Copper's mouth, Cartoonist Milton Caniff insists that he has nothing against Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara; he is merely trying to keep his Steve Canyon comic strip topical. Well, that he is. For the chorus of criticism against McNamara is one of the liveliest conversational topics in Washington nowadays...
...MILTON CANIFF MORTIMER CAPLIN AL CAPP CLIFFORD P. CASE JR. CHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN NORMAN CHANDLER CAROL CHANNING COLBY M. CHESTER INA CLAIRE MARK W. CLARK Lucius D. CLAY VAN CLIBURN CLARK CLIFFORD BENJAMIN V. COHEN LESTER LUM COLBERT ANITA COLBY EDWARD N. COLE LEROY COLLINS JAMES BRYANT CONANT FAIRFAX M. CONE JOHN SHERMAN COOPER THOMAS CORCORAN ERRETT L. CORD RALPH J. CORDINER VIRGIL COUCH JOHN COWLES EDITH CUMMINGS JOHN P. CUNNINGHAM ALEXANDER C. CUSHING
...Hodag dispute. Top aides were soon in a tizzy trying to locate what they assumed to be a classified Air Force base. Finally the Air Force broke down and admitted that it was all an interdepartmental joke-Hodag Missile Base in Hodag, Ark., is a fictional site where Milton Caniff s comic-strip hero. Colonel Steve Canyon, recently settled a labor dispute. Growled Goldberg sheepishly: "My God, a guy has to read the funny papers to find out what's going on around here." Stale Turkey. Not all of Goldberg's labor problems are so fictional...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
Some of the characters are old hands at the game. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon made his first foray against the Reds in 1947. George Wunder's Terry, like Canyon a U.S. Air Force pilot, is as good at outmaneuvering the Russian and Chinese Communists as he ever was against the China-coast pirates of the 1930s. Navy Commander Buz Sawyer has just set forth on a mission against the international dope trade-or, as Sawyer's creator. Artist Roy Crane, put it, "the sinister machinations of a World Power...