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...Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard Norwegian-born Balchen's World War II exploits recounted (he built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions there, later parachuted supplies to the underground on 67 low-level flights to Norway, made no round trips in unarmed planes ferrying internees from Sweden to Britain). President Eisenhower sent his respects, and doughty Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne paid tribute to Balchen. Then, to add to the constellation of honors (including the Legion of Merit and the Medal...
...Power, 51, picks up four-star rank as LeMay's hand-picked successor as boss of SAC. Long Island-born Bomber-Specialist Power quit the twelfth grade to work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper of Air Research & Development...
...Sixth Fleet every carrier pilot is "special-weapons qualified," meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...year it remained as barren as a beach at low tide. This spring the mud turned faintly green with plants. The plants indicated nothing until the reclamation agency had the area photographed from the air. Dr. Alfieri hurried to Ravenna to look at the pictures, which were taken at 12,000 ft. by Italian air force Veteran Vitale Valvassori. Some of the shots showed faint markings that Alfieri's experienced eye spotted at once. He hired Valvassori, partly with his own money, to take detailed, low-level pictures in both black-and-white and color...
...second major problem centers about the "linking of high level scientific concepts with low-level over-simplified words," according to Black...