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...general ideas. Vannevar Bush has been joined over the years by some of the nation's foremost military thinkers: onetime Army Chief of Staff (1945-48) Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Generals Joseph Lawton Collins and George C. Marshall. Air Generals Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Joseph T. McNarney, former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter and Los Angeles Industrialist John McCone, who served as special assistant to Defense Secretary Forrestal in 1948 and as Air Force Under Secretary in 1950-51. Although they differ in detail, all have advocated what amounts...
...entered World War II he was assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence, with a growing service reputation as the headiest young staff officer in the Air Corps. From then on, his rise into the military stratosphere was at missile speed. Tapped by the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold ("I need somebody to help me do my thinking"), Norstad became a peripatetic planner. Starting off as air operations officer for General Jimmy Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force in Britain and North Africa, he soon moved up to the same job in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces...
...Myer, Va., takes him early (8:25) to work in Suite 4E924 of the Pentagon, where he is soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody...
...DRIM KUM TRU (TIME, MAY 6) IS HAP-IEST ITM UV KWOTED IN YERS...
...superior power like rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Australian visitors were hap py to underplay their pride. " I flew over 5,000 miles to see this match," laughed one fan from Down Under, "and what do I watch? The same players I see in my backyard all year long." Through all the excitement, eleven poker-faced Russians took in the matches and tried some...