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Last week's crash was not expected to slow the buildup of the nation's B-52 fleet to 600-900 planes by 1958. Nor did the grounding seriously weaken U.S. defenses. Still in the air were the Air Force's venerable B-36s and 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...
...sooner had Chairman McCormack solved his problems within the room than he ran into a violent and unexpected pressure buildup outside. A band of Northern civil-rights warriors, dogmatically certain that any compromise was bad, caught John McCormack before he got to bed. At the head of the band were Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams (who comes up for re-election this year, must deal with powerful Negro and auto worker groups in Michigan), New York City's Mayor Bob Wagner, and lesser partisans of the N.A.A.C.P., A.D.A. and other civil-rights groups. They demanded...
...last week. It had always been one-sided. Teams of truce inspectors-Swedes and Swiss appointed by the U.N., Poles and Czechs named by the Reds-freely ranged South Korea, making sure that the 1953 armistice restrictions were meticulously observed. But in North Korea, where a buildup of men and materiel has gone on in defiance of the armistice, Communist team members obstructed inspection wherever violations occurred...
...ballyhoo begins: the buildup in the back country, the tank artists and local strongmen, the charm where it works and the arm when they ask for it, the planted puffs in the big metropolitan dailies, the careful suckering of suspicious reporters, the old rah-rah for the worthy causes. And then all at once the first big fight, and a piece of good luck that money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after his 1933 fight with...
...contact with the walls of the tube for more than a fraction of a second. "The success of further work in this direction," he said, "will greatly depend on the possibility of creating conditions under which the plasma [ionized gas] column will experience multiple oscillations during the buildup of the current without coming in contact with the walls. However, there are serious reasons to believe that this cannot be achieved...