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...military buildup. About 30 U-2s are still in service, but a new version of the old bird, called the TR-1, is about to rise out of a mysterious Lockheed facility that produces supersecret military hardware for the Air Force Logistics Command. Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, the first reporter ever to tour the plant, filed this account...
Summa's new boss has organized the remaining properties in three broad groups-hotels and casinos, aircraft construction and real estate. Lummis hired Phil Hannifin, former chairman of the Nevada gaming-control board, to run the company's hotels and casinos. Hannifin's first project: to finish a $55 million overhaul of the dilapidated Desert Inn, where Hughes had lived as a recluse for four years. Jack Real, a former Lockheed executive, was put in charge of Hughes Helicopters. The company, which lost money in the early '70s, is now in the black, and Real expects...
...miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything went wrong. During one General Dynamics flight, TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin watched the missile belting along at 500 m.p.h. across the desert about 10 ft. above the ground...
Wallops Island, Va., and interviewed a universe of scientists and astronauts. To track Skylab, Hannifin returned to several old haunts: the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. But he was haunted by the sight of a souvenir displayed at the North American Air Defense Command facility near Colorado Springs: a 10-lb. container from a Soviet Soyuz that had hurtled through the atmosphere dangerously intact a few years ago, just as hundreds of Skylab chunks were expected to do this month. Said Hannifin: "That 'bottle...
...Also on Hannifin's mind was a sentimental visit he paid this year to an old friend: Baker, who along with the late Able became the first monkeynaut pair in 1959. Hannifin found Baker at NASA's space museum in Tranquility Base, Ala., playing with a plastic model of the space shuttle and living tranquilly while others venture ever deeper into outer space...