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...three times (on one occasion accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and infant grandson). Other guests: Air Force Lieut. General E. R. ("Pete") Quesada (ret.), administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and onetime aviation adviser to President Eisenhower; General Sam Anderson, chief of the Air Force Air Matériel Command; General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research and development; Rear Admiral Charles B. Martell, Hayward's assistant. Most of the high-flying officers have, or had, duties connected with procurement or air research. Martin...
...full 10% to 20% from executive salaries and cut out many a frill. "A lot of the boys don't like riding air coach," says Executive Vice President K. B. Wolfe (a retired Air Force lieut. general and onetime deputy chief of staff for Air Matériel), "but when I ride air coach, by God, they ride...
...this began to have a disastrous effect on the academic standards of Ifs. In seven years, only one of M. Mériel's pupils managed to win the official certificat necessary to go on to secondary school. Worried parents began sending their children to schools out of town. Gradually, the Ifs enrollment dropped...
...seven years, the 1,200 patient citizens of the farming village of Ifs in Northwest France had put up with Headmaster Jacques Mériel of the town's new elementary school. After all, they told each other, he was a harmless, peaceful sort of man. They attributed his strange habits to the fact that he had once been run down by a Nazi truck. But last week the 46-year-old headmaster was the center of a sudden explosion of wrath. Reason: his incorrigible habit of falling asleep in class...
...first, village officials begged parents to send their children back to school pending "decisions from higher authorities.'' Then, when the villagers gathered for a mass protest meeting, the officials decided to compromise. While awaiting a new "arrangement," they had decided to put M. Mériel on sick leave and turn his classes over to his wife. At week's end, things were quiet again in Ifs-especially in the vicinity of Headmaster Mériel himself. "If they're not pleased," said he drowsily, "let them promote me to a secondary school. All the same...