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Gantries & Sentries. Named for the late Air Force Chief of Staff (1948-53) General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the new base is abuilding on 64,000 eucalyptus-strewn acres that in World War II and Korea were Army's Camp Cooke. Tattered bayonet targets, reminders of pre-pushbutton war, stand in a quiet tract, while 3,900 civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building...
...York Yankees-among ball clubs the royalty and far-out winners of the 1958 American League pennant-faced up scornfully one afternoon last week to aging (35) Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher for the seventh-place Baltimore Orioles and long since cast off by the Giants, -Cardinals and Indians. Wilhelm, who had won only two games all season, thereupon pitched to just 28 batters and shut out the Yanks in a 1-o no-hitter...
...telegram from Burbank's Automobile Dealers Association announced that members were canceling their ad contracts with the paper. Said the wire: "This organization will not compete in advertising on the inside with adverse headlines on the outside." Though the loss of business was a heavy blow, Review Publisher Hoyt Cater, whose paper appears in a town where thousands of aircraft workers are out of jobs, defiantly ran the telegram on Page One. Retorted he: "The Review is going to go right on publishing the news. When it's good news, we'll be very happy to print...
Depth is also the paramount problem in the crucial middle-distance area. Support will have to be found for Anderson from amongst Al Gordon, Dave Cahn, Al Percy, Dave Spinney, Dave Brahms, and Art Hoyt. None of this group has had much previous varsity experience...
...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 in the Pentagon knows better than he that...