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Gantries & Sentries. Named for the late Air Force Chief of Staff (1948-53) General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the new base is abuilding on 64,000 eucalyptus-strewn acres that in World War II and Korea were Army's Camp Cooke. Tattered bayonet targets, reminders of pre-pushbutton war, stand in a quiet tract, while 3,900 civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building...
Commander of it all is Louisiana-born Major General David Wade, Atlas-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 210 lbs.) command pilot (7,000 hours) who served (1956-57) as SAC chief of staff to the father of alert deterrence, Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay. Wade's command includes the new SAC 704th Strategic Missile Wing at Vandenberg and two Jupiter squadrons now at Huntsville, Ala. In SAC's businesslike way, Wade now enforces "maximum security" on the base, will soon reinforce his armed guards with sentry dogs...
...chief political opponents, the Socialists, want the West to explore the possibility of talks with the Russians on the German unification and European security.West Berliners applaud Chancellor KONRAD ADENAUER at a recent meeting after Adenauer announced his firm opposition to East German attempts to take over control of the divided city. He will confer with Secretary Dulles today...
...Lonely Crowd, Riesman said, falls into the romantic category, placing its emphasis on specific social strata in this country. The book takes the U.S. as the chief exemplar of post-industrial society and seeks to assess the meaning of this situation for individuals and for institutions...
Fifty bicycles have been damaged in a recent wave of vandalism around Hurlbut, Greenough, and Pennypacker Halls. City and University police forces have been alerted to protect against further damage, Matthew J. Toohy, Chief of University Police, said last night...