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Attack from the Sun. Anderson was riding in a 6-29 piloted by Captain Warren Cook of Vacaville, Calif. As Anderson told it later to a TIME correspondent: "There they were, eight or ten streamers [vapor trails], a beautiful picture. We turned 18° to get all the tail wind we could. As we turned, the MIGs went over past us. They were going to turn into us from the sun, make head-on passes and pick...
...dust devils whirl in the sun. On most days the valley is quiet, with only a scattered coming & going of military vehicles from White Sands Proving Ground (Army Ordnance) or Holloman Air Force Base. But sometimes a screaming roar echoes among the mountains, and a monstrous bird with a tail of flame flies straight into the sky. Or a slender, dartlike object slips out of the belly of a B-29 and streaks over the horizon at several times the speed of sound...
...components go into this brainy machine in the form of dial settings; the results come out as curves drawn on paper. A simulated flight takes only a few seconds and costs almost nothing. Between flights, adjustments can be made to see if the missile can be improved by altered tail surfaces or controls. To test such details by actual flights would cost a whole missile each time...
...just swinging into its bomb run ten minutes from the target when the first fighters flashed down. Major Crecelius' gunners lined up the sights of their radar-controlled 20-mm. cannon. The fighters bored in, slipped under the B-36's tail and banked around for another pass. Suddenly, something went wrong. Screaming down at the "hostile" bomber, an F-51 went out of control, slipped over on its back, and, with a thundering explosion, ripped into the B-36 amidships...
...pointedly clear that he was not watching his TV set, Harry Truman emerged, climbed into his car ten minutes earlier than usual and drove to Blair House for lunch. Whether he sneaked a peek at television there was a well-kept secret. (Acheson succumbed to temptation, caught the tail end of MacArthur's speech...