Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete story of General Thomas Dresser White required that TIME talk at length to the Air Force generals who make plans and decisions for White's global striking force. But fast-moving airmen are not always easy to corner. The Washington Bureau's Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha...
...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...
...Tell him this is very fast Japanese lens and American film...
Very good humor now, smiling at me, smiling aside at Bulganin, talking fast as if he had the answer ready. Laughs, looking at me. Snap, snap...
...Olsen '58, president of the Radcliffe SGA, was more reserved. "There are a great many groups involved," she commented. "The Radcliffe SGA is acting as fast as possible on the problem...