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...state legislature may well be considering a restaurant-wide smoking ban. State Sen. Lucille Hicks (R-Weyland) has introduced a bill that would ban smoking in all public dining rooms in Massachusetts...
Champion Salazar, who hails from Weyland, Mass., edged out runner-up Michael Musyoki of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). UTEP took the team laurels, followed closely by Oregon and Wisconsin. Defending titleist Henry Rono of Washington State (the one team the harriers defeated) came home a dismal 192nd...
Republic won the boost with a red-hot aircraft that can do everything but salute. Described by former Tactical Air Command Chief O. P. Weyland as "the world's most powerful one-man airplane," Republic's Thunderchief will fly 2,000 miles without refueling, hit speeds of Mach 2-plus (1,400 m.p.h.), go high or low and deliver any kind of a bang the Air Force wants. As a tactical strike aircraft in support of ground troops, it can whisk in with rockets, a 20-mm. cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds...
Partridge succeeded Weyland as Far East Air Force commander in chief in 1954. Three years later, as head of the U.S.-Canadian interservice North American Air Defense Command, he tried to clean up the classic NORAD interservice rivalry, succeeded in getting the Joint Chiefs to back up the NORAD commander with some (but, by Partridge's lights, not enough) additional powers...
...hand for the interservice farewell to Generals Weyland and Partridge at Boiling: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James S. Russell, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer...