Word: nate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airpower listened unbendingly as Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles tried to head off the proposed increase. The Air Force, he said, already has "the most powerful striking force on earth." But then, illustrating an astonishing Air Force two-headedness, Quarles admitted that Air Force Chief of Staff Nate Twining thought he needed an extra $7 billion over and above the budgeted $16.5 billion for the coming fiscal year to boost the number of bomber wings from eleven to seventeen...
...political" significance of his visit. Said General Twining, who had journeyed to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet leaders (TIME, June 11): "I am not in the political business." He had, he said, flown to the Communist heartland to "see their equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little in the way of startling "late developments." But after the flyover he went to a banquet given by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and met the test-riotously put-as a diplomat and politician...
Then, heehawing happily, Khrushchev roared: "But we won't show them to you today. Today is too early. We'll do it at some future date. Meanwhile, you keep yours and we'll keep ours. We'll show you what competition is." Nate Twining had right back at him. "I wish," he said, "that Mr. Khrushchev would appear before Congress and tell Congress the Soviet Union wants to compete with the United States . . . The U.S. needs competition. Right now we are not even at half blower [airplane slang for half power]." Replied Khrushchev: "They...
...concluded Nate Twining, the U.S. is "not going to disband them again until we have assurances that it can be done under effective international control and inspection." For an airman's airman, with no pretense of being a politician, he had said a mouthful...
Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 44, oil-heir-turned-Arkansas-cattle-baron; and Jeannette Edris Barrager Hartley McDonnell, 37, Seattle real-estate million-heiress; he for the second time (his first: Barbara - "Bobo" - Jievute Paulekiute Sears), she for the fourth (her first: Nate Barrager, 1929 football captain at the University of Southern California); at Hayden Lake, Idaho...