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...last fortnight a planeload of Pentagon brass arrived at Convair's Fort Worth plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break...
Cain excitedly realized that maybe he had stumbled on a better story than the YB-60. But when he quizzed sources at Convair with "What did I see?" he got only blank stares. Finally, as the Pentagon group started back to Washington, one officer told the persistent newsman: "Don't write about it, and I'll see if I can get it released...
...forces in Europe. After war's end, he was boss of procurement and research for the Air Force at Wright Field, and from 1949 to his retirement this year, he was chairman of the Department of Defense Management Committee, a top-level military coordinating group. At Convair he succeeds La Motte Turck Cohu, 56, president since 1948, who becomes vice chairman of the board under Chairman Floyd Odlum...
...When the Convair was four miles out, the G.C.A. told Captain Reid he was "300 ft. to left and coming back to course." The next message advised Reid he was "right on course," 100 ft. above the glide path with the tall (277 ft.) tower of the Elizabeth, NJ. courthouse one mile ahead of him. Within seconds, the Convair was pulling widely off her course. "Drifting 900 ft. to right of course . . ." flashed the urgent warning. At 3:44, the G.C.A. operator reported that Flight 6780 had moved completely off his radar screen...
Just three-quarters of a mile from the spot where, last month, a flaming C46 crashed and killed 56 passengers, the Convair had nosed over into a fatal dive. After skimming a girls' high school, one wing sliced into a three-story brick building and spun the plane into a two-family frame house. Blazing gas spewed over the neighborhood. Choking black smoke billowed up to thicken the fog. All 23 passengers, including former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, and crew members were killed. In the muck and charred ruins, Elizabeth (pop. 112,675) counted...