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...Discipline Is Essential." The man who has lately done most to demilitarize Culver is its sixth superintendent, retired Air Force Major General Delmar T. Spivey, 56, a West Pointer ('28), World War II bomber pilot, and onetime head of the Air University's War College. Shocked at the turncoat performance of some U.S. prisoners in Korea, Spivey turned down fat offers from industry, decided to devote himself to educating youngsters "in the real meaning of citizenship...
...planes" from crossing Japan's frontiers. In a news release, the Japanese warned "the foreign power concerned" to stay away, left no doubt that they were referring to Soviet Russia, whose planes have been flying over northern Hokkaido for months. To the fighter pilots of Major General Delmar Spivey's Japan Air Defense Force went an order: give one warning burst of fire to intruders, then shoot to kill...
Until recently Spivey did not have enough fast planes or radar to issue such an order and make it stick. But ever since the Russians shot down an American B-29 within sight of Hokkaido last fall (TIME, Oct. 20), the Air Force has been stocking Hokkaido with F-86 Sabre jets, F94 night fighters and up-to-date radar. News of any big shift of planes between Soviet bases in the Kurils or on Sakhalin, any significant change in training there-or, more important, any mass flight toward Japan-can now be flashed in seconds to Spivey...
...America basketball player Bill Spivey of last year's University of Kentucky team appeared before the New York Grand Jury yesterday to testify on the fixing of Madison Square Garden games. It was emphasized that Spivey was not wanted in connection with the probe, but had volunteered to give information...
...Louis used the same old slowdown-and-possession tactics that had won for them two years ago. This did not entirely stop Kentucky's great Bill Spivey (who scored 16 points for the evening), but it did accomplish one of the big upsets of the young season...