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...shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first all-round command, broadened his background to make him a top-echelon candidate...
During World War II Officer Schriever rose from captain to colonel, flew 63 missions chiefly as a B-17 pilot in the Pacific, rose through varied air-logistics jobs to command the advanced echelon of Far East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing...
Capitol Hill the year's sorest political question, Ike's budget, was being fought out on partisan lines. Moreover, up to week's end, the Vice President and Secretary of State both were far away, creating -until Dulles' return from Australia on Sunday-a top-echelon vacuum in the capital. But there was general agreement, even in Congress, that the President's trip was proper to rid himself of a cantankerous head cold...
Through its own training program, General Electric discovered that the flow of ideas from its middle-echelon executives increased 300%. International Business Machines is a brainstorm booster; Chrysler Corp. has tried it, and so have Union Carbide & Carbon, Celanese Corp., American Oil Co., U.S. Steel, Radio Corp. of America, Boeing Airplane Co. Even if the ideas themselves are unworkable, the discussion shakes up workers and bosses alike. Says Chrysler's William D. Merrifield, boss of the company's industrial education program: "The main thing is 'to develop a climate among your executives that is favorable...
Three of Europe's top-echelon Communist newsmen last week were out of their jobs as a result of their protests against Soviet military reprisals in Hungary. The disenchanted...