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...Tradewind turboprop transport went aloft as the Navy's newest flying boat tanker, packing enough fuel for eight swept-wing jets as they snuggled up, four at a time, behind trailing funnel-fitted hoses. Even bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation's first truly supersonic long-range bomber. At Fort Worth, a cameraman for the Star-Telegram snapped a picture of the Hustler as it was rolled out of the hangar for its first ground tests and test flight...
...position, and Pete Everest had swiftly checked instruments, controls, oxygen. Into the mike in his mask he began to count the seconds before the drop: "Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one. Drop me, dad!" The bomber pilot pulled a lever, and the X-2 plummeted away...
...onetime schoolteacher, longtime Foreign Service careerman and specialist on the Balkans and Middle East, since 1953 U.S. Ambassador to Greece. Shy, hard-working Cavendish Cannon will have plenty to do at Rabat. In prospect for the U.S. are tough negotiations with Morocco over the future of four major U.S. bomber bases. Another delicate problem: Morocco is being courted by 1) Egypt to join its "neutralist" sphere of influence, 2) Iraq, worried by Egyptian expansionism, to link up with the pro-Western Baghdad Pact. State is not passing out advice to Morocco in such a delicate situation, but "believes" that...
...higher in the atmosphere. On July 3, the Japanese picked up a wave pattern" that had almost no short waves. Ito thinks this proves that the explosion took place above 22 miles. If it did, Ito reasons, the bomb must have been carried by a rocket. No existing bomber can fly so high...
...most powerful striking force on earth." But then, illustrating an astonishing Air Force two-headedness, Quarles admitted that Air Force Chief of Staff Nate Twining thought he needed an extra $7 billion over and above the budgeted $16.5 billion for the coming fiscal year to boost the number of bomber wings from eleven to seventeen...