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Died. General John Kenneth ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 62, board chairman of Fletcher Aviation Corp., retired veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...
...SPOTTING PLANES are in the works for the U.S. Army. The artillery, which now flies 130-m.p.h. spotters, wants a small plane fast enough to escape the radio-active blast from its long-range atomic cannon, and has asked several planemakers if they could handle a production order for such a plane. Leading candidate: Cessna's new, 400-m.p.h., T-37 twin-jet trainer (TIME, Aug. 9), now being produced for the Air Force...
...plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers electrified train. Going home again, he boards a Vickers airliner on an airfield carved out by Vickers tractors and earth movers. And this is only half the business. For defense, Vickers also makes shells, cannon and 50-ton Centurion tanks, battleships (the 44,460-ton King George V), carriers (the 31,790-ton Illustrious), destroyers, a new type sub that runs on hydrogen peroxide, jet fighters and bombers for the R.A.F...
...Paris last week, decided that the defense of Europe must henceforth be based on nuclear weapons. It is no longer enough, they warned, for Europe to rely on the deterrent nuclear power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. Now that atomic weapons are entering the tactical field (atomic cannon, atomic guided missiles, Belgians, Danes, Turks -all the armies and peoples of Western Europe-must reshape their defenses and readjust their prejudices to the dictates of nuclear warfare...
...Territorial waters two or three decades ago were almost universally recognized as ending three nautical miles out, based on a doctrine, centuries old, that such was the maximum distance a shore-based cannon shot would carry and therefore the greatest enforceable limit. Now each nation makes its own rule...