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ground troops in Europe, he also made the obvious point that new weapons (such as the Matador) make such reductions possible...
...Matador's addition to NATO gives the West at least three possible ways of using the atom against enemy forces advancing in Europe: by 1) conventional piloted aircraft which can deliver A-bombs, 2) the Army's 280-mm. cannon, already in Europe, and 3) the Matador-with its range of several hundred miles and its electronic, ground-controlled brain guiding it to tactical targets by day or by night in any kind of weather...
Every flight test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h...
...draws a fat club member with the tight emptiness of a blown-up sheep bladder, a paranoiac as a jungle of harsh lines straining inside a box. And his captions have the impact of an uppercut. A black Spanish bull glowers from one page with this thought for the matador: "Now the bull is looking at you with intent to kill and all that is required of you is to go in over the horns...
...have been present at [his] hearings. They are of a character to make any honest American sick to his stomach . . . I have seen only one sight to compare with it-a Spanish bullfight, where half a dozen men stick sharp knives into the bull to enrage him before the matador, or in this case, the committee chairman, closes in for the kill. By observing the Jenner hearings, the technique for persecuting the teaching profession can be forecast. The plan is to expose a few teachers who look suspicious and may even be guilty of Communist affiliations. Then, with the support...