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...from Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the budget-conscious Midwest, came a remarkable wire sent by officials of the National Bank of Commerce to President Eisenhower. The bankers suggested that Deputy Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay be placed in charge of a unified U.S. missile program. Then they said: "As bankers, we realize the dilemma facing us-maintaining prosperity while controlling inflation, and at the same time maintaining a costly war-deterrent machine. We assure you of our backing in a program that will guarantee survival...
...LIFE. Shepley, as head of the Washington bureau, made the world his beat. If he was not flying the Atlantic with General Alfred M. Gruenther, Shepley might be fishing with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, or on a safari in Africa with the Air Force's General Curtis LeMay (for a LIFE picture story), or developing a far-reaching story on U.S. world policy...
...transfer of General Curtis LeMay from the Strategic Air Command to the Pentagon as Air Force Vice Chief of Staff set off an Air Force job-switching chain reaction. New top commands posted last week paraded a battle-seasoned new team of generals, showing both LeMay's increasing influence and the wealth of U.S. air talent. Chief among them...
Lieut. General Thomas S. Power, 51, picks up four-star rank as LeMay's hand-picked successor as boss of SAC. Long Island-born Bomber-Specialist Power quit the twelfth grade to work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper...
What about the statement of General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, that SAC is ready to put out brush-fire wars with nuclear weapons? Replied the President: SAC can be used wherever the Defense Department sends it. But "when you get a picture of the great Strategic Air Command charging all over the world for little police troubles, of course, that would be entirely wrong...