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...program, whether it happens to be your job or not. Sniveling is perfectly legitimate, and Johnny is a great hand at it." In 1957 Glenn sniveled the Marines into letting him try to beat the speed of sound from coast to coast. Flying an F8U, Glenn failed by nine minutes, but he did knock 23½ min. off the coast-to-coast speed record by covering the distance in 3 hr. 23 min. at an average speed of 726 m.p.h...
Summoned home by a grateful government, Ira and his buddies were met with brass bands, bronze stars, microphones and cocktail shakers. They were thanked in person by President Roosevelt and hustled off on a coast-to-coast tour of war-bond rallies. Unhappily, all the attention was too much for Ira. a nice simple country boy of 22. He began to hit the bottle and hit it hard. After the war, he kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago...
...Coast-to-Coast Crew. Such is the size of the program that it is impossible to hide the sites from public view; the Air Force, which is in charge of the operation, is therefore depending for security on dispersal and the massive impregnability of the installations themselves. In all, some 20,000 workmen are digging out about 37.5 million cu. yds. of earth, replacing it with 1,600,000 tons of steel, 2,700,000 tons of concrete, and hundreds of miles of electrical ganglia. In Montana alone, 150 Minuteman silos will be dispersed over...
...control center for the vast building project is at Inglewood, Calif., deputy headquarters for the Air Force Systems Command. Boss of the coast-to-coast construction crew is Lieut. General Howell M. Estes Jr., 46, a tough, taciturn veteran of the Strategic Air Command. Estes and his ballistic systems division commander, Major General Thomas P. Gerrity, 47, another SAC veteran, start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m., log 65 hours a week on the job, and expect their staff to do the same. Since the program began in 1956, Estes and his men have discovered...
Eighteen leading newsmen from 11 NATO countries toured the University yesterday in part of a 30-day, coast-to-coast inspection of the United States...