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...Hackensack, N.J.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '45 (215th in a class of 1,045). Wally Schirra, son of a World War I ace, learned to fly a plane as a youngster ("It was in the family"), has logged 3,000 military flight hours (1,700 in jets). He flew 90 Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop a whole family of transonic jets: the Cutlass, the Fury, the Demon. Most recent assignment: test pilot for the new Mach...
...Scientist. Born: East Derry, N.H.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '44 (462nd in a class of 913). In World War II, Al Shepard saw Pacific combat on the destroyer Cogswell, then won his wings ('47), and after a Mediterranean tour with the fleet qualified as a test pilot, flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's in-flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets), he was tapped as a fast-rising comer, sent to the Naval War College ('58), then...
Charges and counter-charges flew last night as each of two rival groups claimed the right to become the official Harvard Students for Nixon Club. After three hours of intense negotiations, four members from each group and one "independent" were selected for the provisional slate of officers in an evenly-split compromise agreement...
Claire Chennault died last year of cancer, Lieut. General U.S.A.F. (ret.). Before that, says this biographer, his persistent ailment had for years been nothing more deadly than a heavy heart. Author Robert Lee Scott Jr. ought to know. He flew in China with Chennault's legendary Flying Tigers, then commanded Chennault's fighter forces in what must have been one of the most gallant and frustrating wars ever fought. Flying Tiger an angry book, is almost as important for what it tells of its villains as it is for the love it accords to its hero. Yet, ironically...
WASHINGTON, April 12--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, looking pale and underweight, flew back from Florida today for further medical treatment...