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...make this deterrent even stronger, President Kennedy wants to give the Air Force another $86 million to retain two or three air wings of medium-range B-47 bombers (which had been marked for deactivation). In addition, the new proposals will speed up the program to put half of SAC's bombers on 15-minute ground alert...
...wrong side of the plane," recalled a nervous lady. At Miami International airport, FAA radar observers were aware of trouble, too. Efforts to raise the plane by radio failed. An eavesdropping Pan American pilot on a training flight slid his jet close by to identify the Electra. From SAC's Homestead Air Force Base came a fully armed F-102 to hover watchfully 5,000 ft. above the hijacked plane...
...appointed in 1957 by U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. In four years he completed 205½ semester hours, compared with the national college average of 124. He was top man in basic sciences, electrical engineering, military studies, social sciences and overall academic achievement. Sullivan hopes to fly for SAC, then study science in graduate school and some day teach at the academy. Said he happily last week: "Today is the beginning...
...panacea, and Dr. Terry, though too enthusiastic, was careful not to suggest that it is. It cures only some cases of choriocarcinoma, one of the rarest of cancers (about 300 U.S. cases a year). Unlike all other human cancers, choriocarcinoma is derived partly from foreign tissue-from the fetal sac, in the case of women who develop it following pregnancy. In animals (typically, mice in experiments), foreign cancers are easier to cure than the spontaneous disease ; presumably the same is true...
Breaking the Dishes? Four years ago-after a nearly ten-year command-LeMay left SAC, moved into the Pentagon as Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. There was a lot of conjecture about the move. LeMay, it was agreed, was a superb field commander. But within the confines of the Pentagon, he would surely break up a lot of policy dishes...