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To the Joint Chiefs, the airmen are prepared to present a simple argument: the current "shoestring" Air Force of 87 groups (present goal: 95 groups), half of them obsolete planes, is not nearly strong enough to cope with Soviet air power. The Navy is already the world's biggest...
Devastating Shoestring. The Air Forces' General Hoyt Vandenberg used his time chiefly to lobby for more airplanes. In his enthusiasm, he scooted in & out of a series of contradictions without so much as a furrow on his handsome, unlined face.
He testified that the U.S. now has only "a 'shoestring Air Force," but within a few minutes he was saying that the Air Force is today's "sole deterrent to war," able to "devastate the industrial potential of any great nation on the globe."
But most of Five, filmed on a shoestring by Producer-Scripter-Director Arch Oboler, takes place in Oboler's own modernistic eyrie in California's Santa Monica mountains, where the survivors happen to gather from as far away as Mt. Everest and the Empire State Building. Five'...
Founded five years ago by some young, M.I.T.-trained scientists on a $31,000 shoestring, Tracerlab was the first U.S. company to grow out of atomic energy (TIME, Sept. 12, 1949). It built a thriving business selling radioactive isotopes to hospitals, has big Government orders for devices to measure radioactivity...