Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha to talk with SAC Commander Thomas S. Power, discovered that Power had just flown in from Washington, was set to fly out to Europe, was too busy to see him. At 3 a.m. from-his hotel room, Koffend fired off a telegram petitioning General Power for an interview. Six hours...
...time to work out the problems of phasing in the force-soon-to-be. "We must constantly re-evaluate and update our thinking," says White, and he does a first-rate job of re-evaluating and updating his own. In SAC's underground headquarters at Offutt AFB near Omaha, teams of officers are already hatching war plans and weapons requirements for manned aircraft and ballistic missiles for next year and each successive year up to 1961. Out of its complex of laboratories, flight-test centers and missile firing ranges, Air Research and Development Command has let R. & D. contracts...
...flashed southward within seconds through the system to the Alaskan Air Command in Anchorage or Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland, R.C.A.F. headquarters at St. Hubert near Montreal and NORAD at Colorado Springs. From there, over "hot line" red telephones, the alert would be relayed to SAC headquarters in Omaha and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington for immediate consultation with President Eisenhower, whose decision to give SAC's bombers the "go ahead" could be made and dispatched within five min utes from the time the warning came from the DEW line...
Heir-Tight. In Omaha, Ignatius Lutgen, 63, separated from his wife a year after their 1929 marriage, finally sought and got an annulment, explained: "I didn't want her to get my social security...
...Union Committee has chosen its officers and Student Council representatives. Eugene Langevin of Stoughton Hall and Ferndale, Mich., has been chosen chairman, J. Thomas Rosche of Massachusetts Hall and Omaha, Neb., vice-chairman and treasurer, and Robert W. Wilkinson, Jr. of Grays Hall and Portland, Ore., secretary. Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Robert E. Weil, and Hastings Wyman, Jr. are the new Council representatives...