Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Africa"-though the fact of the matter is that if the French do not make an end to the bloody war in adjoining Algeria, none of their cards will be worth much. The U.S.'s interest is direct: it has a naval air station and four SAC air bases in Morocco from which, in case of war, bombers could command the Mediterranean and reach Russia itself...
With the promotion of LeMay, the U.S. Air Force has solved an unusual personnel problem. A brilliant commander of the vital SAC and one of the military's finest organizers, Curt LeMay had held his post for eight years, too long for any soldier in one job, so long that he was beginning to appear the indispensable man in the Air Force's top field command. He had been thought of by some top Pentagon names as too tough a bull for the Washington china shop. Now at last on the Washington scene, LeMay will succeed General Thomas...
...missile has little record of military unwillingness to accept it as the weapon that must be developed at top speed. Another point is that the armed forces are not phasing in the missiles prematurely. "It is just as dangerous to have a weapon too early," said one SAC officer, "as it is to have it too late...
...jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone to Peter Lind Hayes, who is substituting...
Some surgeons frankly doubted whether Beck's operation did any good. Others noted that after any surgery in the chest, the heart sac was likely to become irritated (and therefore develop better circulation), so they argued that Beck could do as much good simply by opening the chest, looking at the heart and closing it up again. Recently, Beck has amassed figures which make a good case for his operation: out of 100 consecutive cases, 90% are alive after six months to five years (far more than could have been expected without surgery), and 50% are well enough...