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...post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion for sports cars had been noted and frowned upon in Washington...
Pool Tables & TV. For nearly two years, LeMay sponsored sports-car races on SAC air bases, giving a new push to auto racing in the U.S. and at the same time relaxing his command's normally tense pace. Up to 65,000 paying spectators turned up for the shows. LeMay wistfully refrained from driving in the races, but friends jockeyed his $4,500 Cadillac-Allard around the courses. LeMay's purposes in promoting the races: 1) to give his high-grade tinkerers a useful hobby, and 2) to raise money (the races have netted about...
...blocks of tickets and to work "voluntary" extra duty. Republican Scrivner, an old artillery file (he served in World War I in the 129th Field Artillery, Captain Harry Truman's outfit), asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week he released its report, a sharp strafing of LeMay's position...
Congressman Scrivner, who drives an Oldsmobile 98 (his top speed: 65 m.p.h.) had already won his campaign: while the investigation was still on, the Air Force had quietly dropped the finish flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...When LeMay first flew Boeing's B-52, Allen asked him anxiously what he thought. LeMay's good-natured complaint: "The seats are too hard.") How many Boeing will build is secret, but the Air Force promises that there will be enough for at least seven of LeMay's SAC wings. The number: 200 or more...