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Leaping a Generation. Nagging the Air Force is a vast and worsening aircraft and missile obsolescence problem. Today the heavy-wallop weapons are the B-52 and B-47. Around the corner is a new generation: the B58 bomber, Atlas, Titan. But a few years beyond these, the Air Force sees a radically different weapons system of Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, ready for rapid launching from invulnerable underground nests (TIME, March 10). Under the pressure of the budget ceiling, Air Force brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into...
Thank you, you lovely, talented bastards for your moving, wallop-packing story on Martha...
...Conceived in Sin." The result was an impressive argument for live TV drama. Seldom has so much TV wallop been packed into an hour as in Director Lumet's handling of the fall of Governor Willie Stark, ruggedly played by granite-faced, gravel-voiced Neville Brand, 37, a relative unknown until his Part 1 performance a fortnight ago. Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived...
...then, to President Eisenhower: "Didn't he do a wonderful job?" Pennsylvania's Republican Representative James Fulton shouted to Mrs. Nixon: "How about a kiss for the President, Pat?" The President ducked away, grinning, lifting a shielding arm: "Dick is here, and Dick still carries a wallop." On a temporary speaker's stand, President Eisenhower nudged Pat Nixon, pointed to one of the dozens of placards bobbing above the crowd. Its legend: "Viva la Blond...
...insane to go all this distance for a beer." But the newsmen rallied to go out on the town, happily gawked at bare-breasted stripteasers, encountered flocks of B-girls ("Darling, ees eet hokay eef I have anod-der veeskie?"), and learned to down the whisky bamby: a $5 wallop of orange and pineapple juice built around a big dollop of Scotch...