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...feel frustrated and uneasy at a cocktail party and happy when he is in the field or at the bridge table. Like Ike, he likes the far-ranging operation, is in his element when he is outbound for Labrador in the Hanna Co.'s speedy converted Lockheed patrol bomber. His nonbusiness passion is horses; he is a scientific horse breeder and an excellent horseman. His rambling, two-story country home in Kirtland Hills, just outside Cleveland, is a horsy household dominated by murals, pictures and statues of horses. Above the living-room mantel is a lighted oil painting...
Arriving at Gander, passengers are herded off their planes through long, wooden ramps appropriately called "sheep runs." The ramps lead to a vast, gloomy hangar built in 1941, when Gander was expanded to serve as a bomber ferry base. Grounded travelers, hung up in Gander for periods varying from an hour or two for refueling to several days for bad weather, have little choice but to haunt the airport's brawling, barnlike waiting room in a bedlam of children's cries and squawking announcements by 20-odd airlines. Grand Falls (pop. 16,059), the nearest town...
...picture's central character is the Army Air Force's Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. (Robert Taylor), who was assigned to spearhead the historic Operation Silverplate. The film shows Colonel Tibbets testing and perfecting the new 6-29 long-range bomber in 1943, assembling and training a group of Air Force experts at Wendover Field in the Utah desert during 1944, piloting the Enola Gay (named after his mother), which dropped the first atom bomb on Japan in August...
...four carriers, must be supported by six cruisers or battleships, 30 destroyers, four scouting submarines, a minesweeping force, and a train of tankers and supply ships. By rough estimate (the Navy will not talk cost figures), such a force with flush-deck carriers costs $2.5 billion. One B50 bomber group, plus cost of air base, fighter protection, fuel, men and antiaircraft guns costs less than one of the new carriers completely armed. And the B50 group can deliver about 15 times as much bomb tonnage to the enemy in a given period of time as can a carrier task group...
...Stuttgart's smoky beer hall, Panzerknacker Rudel seemed to feel that he was back in the Stuka dive bomber with the European Army (EDC) as his target for the night. "We cannot join these Western schemes," he shouted. "[They would mean] the immolation of the German people . . ." Added General Adolf Wolf: "America wants to use us as additional horses . . ." Anyone who cooperates with such designs, said Wolf, "will expose himself . . . as a man without honor or comradeship...