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Four-Star Flyer. Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, 54, a sturdy six-footer, is accustomed to terse orders and tough assignments. Once, during World War II, the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold asked him: "What do you know about designing and building a jet airplane?" He replied, "Nothing much-does anyone?" "Well, Ben," said General Arnold, "you'd better find out. I've decided to put you in charge of the job." Chidlaw pioneered in developing America's first jet (the P-59, with a Bell air frame and General Electric engine). He was given a year...
...WILEY THOMAS Knoxville, Tenn...
Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...
...This morning," said Baptist Carlson, "we are here to renew our faith and our commitment to God." In the next half-hour, half a dozen notables rose to their feet. Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley, a Lutheran, read from the First Psalm ("Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly . . ."). Vice President Nixon, a Quaker, read from the 15th chapter of John ("This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism...