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...Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, Carrot checks all aircraft reported by the regional radar and observer net (including Mother Goose). Carrot identifies planes through flight plans, airfield reports and other means, including IFF ("Identification Friend or Foe,' electronic gadgets emitting special signals). No plane can remain unidentified for more than two minutes-the maximum is fixed by General Chidlaw's order-without the air controller at Carrot ordering a jet scramble...
...ready to roll, with the lead pair parked on the take-off strip and two more right behind. As at every air-defense base, restless jet pilots are always waiting in the ready shack for the buzzer-the loud rasping signal to scramble. "It sounds pretty awful," said one Kirtland pilot to a newsman sharing his vigil, "after you've been here six months...
...likes the far-ranging operation, is in his element when he is outbound for Labrador in the Hanna Co.'s speedy converted Lockheed patrol bomber. His nonbusiness passion is horses; he is a scientific horse breeder and an excellent horseman. His rambling, two-story country home in Kirtland Hills, just outside Cleveland, is a horsy household dominated by murals, pictures and statues of horses. Above the living-room mantel is a lighted oil painting of George Humphrey on his own Richmond Boy. He spends most of his vacations on his 3,000-acre estate, "Milestone," near Thomasville, Ga.-usually...
...asked, with a wink: "Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything?") He revels in the role of head-of-the-family, loves to gather his son and two daughters and his eight grandchildren at Kirtland Hills on Sundays...
...training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete with game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. He rides to the hounds, shows his horses, is a member of the exclusive (50 members in the U.S.) Jockey Club. He is a vestryman of St. Hubert's Episcopal Chapel of Kirtland Hills, Ohio, not far from his estate. He centers most of his social life around his family and his hunting companions...