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...newly appointed aide to Strategic Air Command Boss Curtis LeMay, Lieut. Colonel David C. Jones was apprehensive when he planned a 1956 flight with the tough-talking general to Goose Bay in Labrador. Jones' concern turned out to be justified. LeMay walked unexpectedly through a door in the C-97, and a startled flight engineer dropped a hatch, which hit the general on the head. Next a crewman guarding another open hatch was distracted just as LeMay approached, and the commander fell into the hole, suffering scratches and bruises. Finally, LeMay was walking forward in the aircraft, lighting...
...romances. Item: Carolee Campbell is leaving her role in The Doctors to pursue her interest in the martial arts. Last year the mags had some real meat to chew. Another World Actor George Reinholt, the soaps' bad boy, had so many off-camera tantrums that enraged Head Writer Harding Lemay wrote him out of the show...
...offices for the various publications--the weekly Review of the News, the monthly magazine American Opinion--as well as for Western Islands. Interior decoration consists of the original paintings that were reproduced on the cover of American Opinion. Most are either portraits--Chaing Kai-Shek, Ian Smith, Gen. Curtis Lemay, Gen. Douglas MacArthur--or scenes of American life, as Birchers view it: anxious mothers seeing upright young men off to war, congregational picnics after church on Sundays, flags everywhere...
Agee was the a chetype of the 1950s college graduate. In 1956 he was chairman of the Washington's Birthday Exercises at Notre Dame, which gave General Curtis LeMay a "Patriotism Award." LeMay told Agee and his fellow classmates that"... If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence." Evidently Agee did. At the end of his senior year he was interviewed by a CIA recruiter on campus. He decided to join only after realizing that he did not want...
...What Vietnam policy did Gen. Curtis LeMay advocate...