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...next day the Air Force, for the second time in less than eight months, grounded all its $8,000,000, 600-m.p.h. B-52s, said they would stay that way until investigators had determined the cause of the crash. Preliminary evidence indicated an electrical-system failure, which was also blamed for the mid-air explosion of another Castle-based B-52 last February, which resulted in a ten-day grounding...
...shorter-ranged but strategically based B-47s. B-52 crews, moreover, continued to report for around-the-clock duty, and on the flight lines their ships stood combat-ready, their engines tested, their fuel tanks full. "In any need or emergency," said the Air Force, "the B-52s will...
...will "buy more" B-52s when it needs them, Wilson said, but in the meantime, the $960 million Congress tacked to the Eisenhower Administration's defense-appropriation bill for stepped-up production of the intercontinental bombers will "be treated just like any other funds...
...stand on civil rights. Four months ago Harriman was demanding that the President act on the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. Testing the tenor of his camp at that time, a spokesman for the Southern wing reported back: "They're ready to send B-52s over the South." In May, for the edification of the Americans for Democratic Action, Harriman (who likes to be thought of as another Franklin Roosevelt) imagined what F.D.R. would have done. "He would have had a fireside chat and rallied men and women of good will together to work together to carry...
...thinking places principal responsibilities for today's peace on the Air Force, both with its long-range B-52s and B-36s at home, and its B-47s deployed overseas. The Navy and its carriers, mobile bases already cruising within Navy bomber reach of enemy targets (TIME, May 21), play an important auxiliary role. For the Army, there is clearly less and less to do even today. Faced by these staggering facts, the Army struck out for its own place under the nuclear sun of tomorrow, planning and arguing strenuously in these areas...