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Recapturing his Senate seat in 1946, Lodge was a disciple of the late Arthur Vandenberg and an authority on foreign affairs. When Dwight Eisenhower's political star began to rise, Lodge, like Nixon, was one of the first to spot it. He journeyed to Paris in 1951 and tried to persuade his friend (they first met in the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941) to run for the G.O.P. nomination. After Ike agreed to run, Lodge worked hard managing the difficult, pre-convention campaign until, because of his incautious arrogance, he was replaced by Sherman Adams. This same snootiness, plus...
...bird into the air as quickly as possible after the fire signal. Last week the Air Force awarded an $81,567,000 contract to American Machine & Foundry Co. to build 36 new launching systems for the Titan ICBM, similar to its prototype system at California's Vandenberg Air Force base. With the new contract, which brings its share of the ballistic missile program to $166 million, American Machine & Foundry will produce and install nine operational launching complexes for each of four missile squadrons...
...kids," says Long Island School Psychologist Justin Koss, "need the Little League. But some need to dig in their own backyards, too. The trouble is that plenty of parents think that if their kid isn't in Little League, there's something abnormal about him." Declares Shirley Vandenberg, 33 (three children), of Portland, Ore.'s suburban Oak Grove: "We don't need Blue Birds and Boy Scouts out here. This is not the slums. The kids out here have the great outdoors. I think people are so bored, they organize the children, and then...
...Force surveillance center also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling in the sky, and its computers worked out a detailed description of the new object's behavior. The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif...
...This state's primary put Arthur Vandenberg out of the Republican race for the presidency in 1940, stopped Willkie in 1944, and will be a key Democratic battleground...