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...Conversion of three KC-135 turbojet tanker aircraft, stationed at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, to provide similar command centers aloft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Fail-Safe | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

When cooperation is given any more, strings of steel are attached. B-52s and KC-135s will be filmed for Universal-International's A Gathering of Eagles, but the planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business, Hollywood: The Hexagon | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...South Viet Nam, U.S. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, critically examined the Vietnamese air arm and found it good. Just before hopping into the pilot's seat to fly his jet KC-135 to the Philippines, LeMay said: "It's perfectly apparent to me that the Vietnamese government is making rapid strides in its efforts to clear the country of Communist insurgents." Other recent visitors to South Viet Nam were not so sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Victory by Radio? | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...people out there in radio-land are advised that former Student Council president Howard J. Phillips '62 and former Council member Roger M. Leed '61 will clash in debate on the Jerry Williams show on WMEX (1510 kc) at 10 p.m. tonight. It should be just like old times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips, Leed to Debate | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

...Result: Wall Street was taken completely by surprise. Lockheed stock jumped 55 points in one day. Investors knew that besides the military contract, commercial airlines will probably order the planes for their cargo service just as they did when Boeing developed its 707 passenger jet from its Air Force KC-135 tanker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Jet-Age Hercules | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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