Word: skunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government people wanted to discuss a secret airplane project, so secret that not even General Curtis LeMay, then boss of the Strategic Air Command, knew about it. That night, Kelly Johnson, head of the "Skunk Works"-Lockheed's supersecret project-development division-began clearing out a hangar. "I got 23 fellows," says Johnson, "and we went to work. We didn't even give it a project name; that's a better kind of security. Later, the fellows began calling it 'the Angel...
President Eisenhower, however, was willing to take the risk. In 1953 the CIA ordered designs for special camera equipment and sensing devices. By the time Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works were brought into the project, the U.S. had almost everything it needed-except the airplane itself. Development of that plane was left up to Johnson. Recalls he: "Nobody ever tried to tell us what to do. We knew the problem. I knew the kind of wings I wanted...
...also takes men like Kelly Johnson. Last week the Air Force Association presented the boss of the Skunk Works with a trophy for designing and developing the U-2-and "thus providing the free world with one of its most valuable instruments in the defense of freedom...
...Apologists for Laval's World War II behavior too often get lost in justifiable (but not entirely relevant) outrage at the conduct of his trial in 1945. (Nothing was proved against him; he was allowed almost no chance to make a defense; the jurors kept shouting things like "Skunk! A rope for his neck! A dozen bullets for his hide!") Cole avoids this by calmly letting the chilling facts of the trial speak for themselves. But in describing Vichy, he falls into another trap: the tendency to feel that Laval is somehow less guilty because Pétain, Darlan...
...Colorado Springs, Colo. Last week businessmen in the pine-covered foothills of the Rockies were bitterly divided over the proposed construction of an institution to be called Rampart College. The school, complained one director of the Chamber of Commerce, would be about as welcome in Colorado Springs as "a skunk at a family picnic...