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Three days later, in the Kennedy family's Convair, Jack and handsome Wife Jackie flew out to Milwaukee to make the official announcement, also confirm previous plans to enter Nebraska's nonbinding primary. Plain-spoken as always, Kennedy startled reporters by pointing out that his "principal adversary" in the big race was not Humphrey but Texas' Lyndon Johnson, already credited with control of some 350 Southern delegates. Kennedy twitted Johnson as well as Missouri's Stuart Symington for refusing to meet him in the primaries. They remain safely on the side lines, he charged, "hoping...
...aircraft cutbacks proposed by the Administration would permit the Air Force to build only 40 more Boeing B-52 jet bombers, bringing the B-52 force to a total of 700 by the end of 1963, and only 30 more delta-wing, 1,400-m.p.h. Convair B-58s, for a total of 86. Air Force planners were distressed that only $70 million was earmarked for two prototype models of the 2,000-m.p.h. B70 long-range bomber, which airmen envisage as being able to fly anywhere in the world within five hours and to lay as many as 100 small...
...Bunker's action came none too soon. The Titan, on which the U.S. has spent some $1.2 billion to date, is in trouble. After four preliminary successful shoots (none beyond the first stage), the missile designed to be more sophisticated than Convair's Atlas has not been able to get off the pad for seven months...
...FORCE STRETCH-OUT will trim deliveries of Boeing KC-135 air tankers and Convair B58 bombers. Air Force will buy only 66 tankers this fiscal year instead of 96 ordered, and only 20 B-58s instead...
...delta-winged, wasp-waisted Convair F106 interceptor, piloted by Major Joseph W. Rogers of Worthington, Ohio, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and climbed to 40,000 ft. (jets are slow at low altitude). Air conditions were ideal; the aircraft and its Pratt & Whitney J-75 engine were new but carefully chosen. In earlier tests, the engine had been revved up until its temperature reached the highest permissible level, and the fuel-input control was set at that point...