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...Force's senior officer, four-star General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon,* 61, chief of the Tactical Air Command, will retire in March, the Air Force announced, after 36 years of service, 33 of them as a flyer. As commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe at the close of World War II, General Cannon had already won renown as a peerless air tactician. He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations. As one of the Air Force's pioneer instructors, Cannon has a roster...
With the new firepower now being developed - small atomic bombs, atomic cannon, ground-to-ground guided missiles capable of carrying atomic-war heads -SHAPE strategists now talk of forward and mobile "islands of resistance" or "centers of strength" as big as a division or even a corps. The islands, air-supplied, would be capable of holding against strong enemy forces, and of blasting their way through very strong enemy defenses. Thus NATO forces could transform their real-estate-guarding function into something more positive...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...
Such a re-match, it can be seen, would offer a better comparison of the merits of the three teams than did the original series and, with such a galaxy of stars, would certainly be popular with the loyal supporters of the teams. Walter F. Cannon...
...five minutes past 9 one morning last week, in the capital city of Ankara, a bugler blew a blast, and all over the nation's 296,000 square miles, 21 million Turks stood motionless for five minutes. Only the delayed shriek of jet formations broke the silence. Then cannon began to boom at five-minute intervals as Kemal Ataturk, the Father of the Turks-dead 15 years this day-began his last voyage...