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...most important mission fell to General Hoyt Vandenberg, boss of the U.S. Air Force: finding enough air bases in Europe for NATO's air needs. At present, the U.S.'s major continental air bases are in Germany, only a few minutes' jet flying time from Communist Czechoslovakia. In case of war, the Red air force could strike damaging blows at these fields before the U.S. fighters could get into the air. Urgently needed: 100 airfields in Western Europe, most of them in France, farther away from the Red border. The French have promised to cooperate in building...
Meanwhile, Moscow was underlining the urgency of Hoyt Vandenberg's air-defense mission in Paris. The Russians were reported to have moved 500 MIG-15 jets and jet bombers into East Germany to replace their old, propeller-driven planes...
Devastating Shoestring. The Air Forces' General Hoyt Vandenberg used his time chiefly to lobby for more airplanes. In his enthusiasm, he scooted in & out of a series of contradictions without so much as a furrow on his handsome, unlined face...
Collins enlisted Baptist Minister Hoyt Farr and Methodist Minister Roland Walker as witnesses, set forth one night for the Hunt and Lido Clubs, in dry Clayton County. Collins talked his way past burly bouncers and a front door with iron bars, got a minister ("my buddy") into each club with him. In his column, he reported what they had seen: "The Hunt Club [has] a well-stocked bar ... big stacks of gambling chips and the biggest crap or gaming table you are likely to see in these parts ... At the Lido Club there is a gambling room with...
Harvard and Yale crews will meet June 22, in the oldest intercollegiate athletic event in America, Hoyt C. Pease, chairman of the regatta committee, said yesterday...