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...first salmon streaks of dawn were coming up over Washington's National Airport when the darkened Convair winged in from West Virginia. Jackie Kennedy lay curled in sleep on a back seat, but her husband, the hero of the night before, was wide awake. As soon as the plane door opened, he hurried over to a vending machine, plunked in a dime and plucked out an early edition of the Washington Post. KENNEDY SWEEPS WEST VA. VOTE, proclaimed the headline. Chuckled Jack Kennedy: "I wouldn't be surprised if Lyndon and Stu might be having a conference today...
...would probably be the first to arrive on the moon, said a paper-weary executive at San Diego's Convair-Astronautics plant, if it just climbed there on IBM cards. To combat the problem of swollen documents and varicose office memos, Convair-Astronautics Communications Manager Charles T. Newton circulated one of his own (which Convairites promptly proceeded to ignore). Excerpts...
Barely showing the effects of his hard work, Kennedy flew eastward at week's end in the family Convair. On the agenda this week: three days of campaigning in New Hampshire, where the nation's first primary comes off next week-and where nobody doubts that the boy from neighboring Massachusetts has things in the palm of his hand...
...missilemaker was handsome, tough talking Thomas Lanphier Jr., 44, wartime fighter pilot and Navy Cross winner (for gunning down the plane carrying Japan's naval commander, Admiral Isoroku Ya-mamoto), who is a vice president of General Dynamics' Atlas-making Convair division. To an audience of 40 junketeering newsmen and Air Force brass, Lanphier in one evening 1) gave a hard sell for the Atlas, whose capabilities even the President has highly praised: 2) pushed an obvious soft pedal for the Martin Co.'s competing Titan; 3) upbraided the press for not paying more heed...
Emphasizing that he was wearing his orivate citizen's hat, Lanphier sandwiched in his remarks while acting as master of ceremonies at a squab and wild rice dinner hosted by Convair at San Diego's Kona Kai Club. He was "glad," he noted, that a Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne...