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...Commanding General Thomas S. Power tapped strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) Major General David Wade, 47, SAC chief of staff since mid-1956. A veteran bomber pilot, Louisiana-born General Wade saw Air Force duty in two wars, but he carried out his most daring exploit on the ground: stationed in Japan during the Korean War as commander of a B-29 wing, he won the Soldier's Medal for plunging into the burning wreckage of a fighter plane and hauling the pilot to safety...
...ability to get his planes into the air fast is one of Tommy White's methods of exploiting the potentialities of the Air Force to the fullest to meet the new day's threats. There are other ways to make the most of airpower, and the U.S. is aware of all of them. A year ago, when the Russians threatened to send volunteers to exploit the Suez crisis, the U.S. sent Moscow a private hands-off warning -and sufficient SAC bombers took the air to make the warning effective. The Russians quit talking about volunteers...
This exhibition of lithographs and woodcuts is especially interesting in its implicit commentary on each artist as creator and technician over and above whatever medium he may exploit at a given moment...
...celebrate the event, and to exploit its publicity potentialities, the management of Soho's Le Condor nightclub thought up a special kind of party. The management called it "The Confidential Ball-dressed for exposure," sent out invitations to some 300 of Tony's friends, most of whom accepted. They arrived dressed according to instructions-in pajamas, bathing suits or just their underwear. Among the guests: Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 25, the sister of Lord Londonderry, Sir Hugo Sebright, 26, Daphne Pattine, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk, one Count Gerhard von Goerl, and a sprinkling...
Algerian nationalists jumped to exploit France's internal crisis. In a show of impudent strength, they staged a coordinated attack on Sidi-bel-Abbes, the storied home of the Foreign Legion itself...