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Fulfilled Promise. Then Symington gave Nate Twining a chance to fulfill his promise to speak...
...When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare in the sky. Nate Twining, military airman since 1923, came to high command heavily fueled with experience...
...chief of staff, who is now an active and athletic 55, comes from a military family. One Annapolis-bred brother, Merrill, is a major general of Marines, another, Robert, is a retired Navy captain. At West Point, Nate Twining, a good end on the football team and a middle-of-the-class student, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1919, and was becalmed for almost four years in the doldrums of peacetime Army life. Then he made his way into the Air Service, trained on Jennies and became a pursuit pilot. He rolled up 4,444 hours...
...half years ago. after a tour in Alaska where he hunted big Northern brown bear, he became vice chief of staff and No. 2 man in the Air Force. Last year, when Vandenberg was out of action for months recuperating from surgery, Nate Twining ran the Air Force in all but name, distinguished himself for evenhandedness and loyalty to Vandenberg's policies. Twining is near retirement age. President Eisenhower was thus able to appoint him for two years instead of the usual four, and still reserve the chance to appoint youngish (46) General Lauris Norstad, commander...
General Nathan Farragut ("Nate") Twining, 55, now the No. 2 man in the Air Force under Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg. A second possibility: General Ben Chidlaw. 52. head of the Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs...