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Since his youth, White has been interested in hunting and sailing. The latter hobby brought him a commission in the Navy in 1940. After four years in the Atlantic on minesweepers and destroyer escorts, White went to Washington to work for James Forrestal in smoothing the transition to a peace...
United as One. Now, as at all times since World War II, the U.S. did not believe that the Soviets wanted World War III, but Dwight Eisenhower took no chances. Out of the White House flowed a series of crisp and rippling decisions, a new urgency of diplomatic cables and...
Mum on palace discords back home in The Netherlands (TIME, Oct. 29), Prince Bernhard, seeming to be enjoying every moment of his bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty...
The final squeeze was applied by the tight money market, just when Wolfson needed cash more than ever to handle the increasingly big contracts he had taken on, e.g., construction of a $120 million, 1,036-ft. Forrestal-type supercarrier, and a $92 million Priest Rapids Dam with its 631...
For the U.S. Navy and its planemakers, supersonic air war poses a tough question: how to build a jet hot enough to fight all comers yet cool enough to land on short carrier flight decks. Last week the Navy thought it had an answer. Off San Diego, a slim, stub...