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AUGUSTA, Ga., April 22--President Eisenhower, planning important disarmament conference with Harold Stassen tomorrow, arranged today to observe maneuvers aboard a mighty warship--the new 60,000-ton aircraft carrier Saratoga...
...terms him "a pink-cheeked Apollo." After graduation and four years in battleships, Raddy got into the Navy's second postwar aviation class at Pensacola, Fla., won his wings in the fall of 1920, moved steadily upward to command the crack Fighter Squadron I aboard the new carrier Saratoga...
...towed sleeve in five passes, a Navy gunnery record, and he advanced with the Navy from the old Liberty-engined torpedo plane ("It could make 70 m.p.h. going downhill") to the dive bombers and fighters of World War II. On his last scheduled carrier landing aboard the old Saratoga in 1941, his plane hook skipped over the arresting gear, and he crashed into the landing barrier at high speed. Badly shaken up, he climbed into another plane, took off, and came back in for a perfect landing...
...company's highest-priced Imperial line, goes up 45 h.p., to a top 325 h.p., has another 31 in. chopped off the height (down to 57 in.) but no change from last year's 126-in. wheel base. Like DeSoto, Chrysler will add a third line, the Saratoga, which will fit in between its Windsor and high-priced New Yorker lines as competition for the big Buicks and Oldsmobiles...
...Saratoga Handicap (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). The $50,000 horse race...