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...usual stream of brass moved through the Pentagon concourse last week, top Air Force men occasionally broke formation and glided unobtrusively into a suite of neat, quiet rooms. Their object: a thorough hangar check for heart disease. Since 1950, more than 50 middle-aged Air Force executives-from the Secretary down-have undergone regular scrutiny by a team of Air Force specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most...
...down ten miles from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. Out of the plane, looking slightly airsick, trooped 45 apple-cheeked young Danish soldiers wearing sky-blue helmet liners and arm bands. Falling them in, 30-year-old 1st Lieut. Axel Bojsen marched his men past a hangar, gutted by British bombers, up to an Egyptian brigadier. "On behalf of the Egyptian armed forces," intoned the brigadier, "I welcome you as guests, as troops of the United Nations Emergency Force...
...daughter's name, Diane. Yet at 2:30 a.m. he was winging southward for some unprecedented Election Day campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...
...bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation's first truly supersonic long-range bomber. At Fort Worth, a cameraman for the Star-Telegram snapped a picture of the Hustler as it was rolled out of the hangar for its first ground tests and test flight...
...five Navy-run bus lines. Wives hustle the children off (on any of eight Navy-run school bus lines) to the world's largest Navy-operated dependents' school (1,000 pupils), then go around to shop in a cut-rate hangar-sized commissary (stocking electrical appliances, rock-'n'-roll records and quick-frozen Little Bo Pizzas shipped from the U.S.), or in any of the seven handy branch stores (total 1955 sales: $4,100,000). On the way home, they can stop for Scotch or bonded bourbon ($1.20 a fifth) at a Navy-run liquor store...