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...Army. "We're not going to set up an air force within the Army," said Deputy Defense Secretary Reuben Robertson, as he explained the Wilson memo to newsmen. Army aviation is strictly limited to such functions as liaison and observation within a combat zone extending not more than 100 miles beyond the front lines, and the Army is specifically forbidden to provide its own strategic and tactical airlift, tactical reconnaissance or close-combat air support. More important, the Army is restricted to a 200-mile range in its surface-to-surface missiles (on the theory that they could...
...Navy. While the Army and Air Force were fighting, the Navy sailed serenely along, kept out of trouble. The Wilson memo gave the Navy a go-ahead for all ship-based missile development (i.e., everything except the intercontinental ballistic missile), and the Navy announced that it was commissioning an experimental ship to work out the gyroscopic navigational system required for accurate firing of a 1,500-mile ballistic missile (see SCIENCE...
...Memo from Girl Friday: Gossipist Walter Winchell and his radio sponsor have phhht. Happened four weeks ago, even before his splituation with TV, because sponsor, Seaboard Drug Co., feared consequences of columnist's "long series of offensive remarks" about Adlai Stevenson on his weekly newscast. Sponsor kept it quiet to give Mutual time to dig up fresh scratch (WW's weekly take: $5,000), but Winchell began sniping at Seaboard Drug in newspaper column. Sponsor exploded. "Malicious, libelous and untrue," said Seaboard President Harry Patterson. "The man has gone...
...guilty parties, charged Southwestern Bell, was King Van Lines, Inc. a big Wichita trucking outfit operating from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evidence: a photostatic copy of a King interoffice memo which Bell's lawyers got from a disgruntled trucker that proved King was working a switch on the old "collect call" routine. Said the memo from King's vice president John Kelso: "I know the method, I think, where we can save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill...
Since the memo went on to outline other coded initial messages (L for loaded, H for half loaded, R for three-quarters loaded, etc.), and since Bell records showed a large number of collect calls refused by King, the phone company thought it had a good case, will ask the court for a permanent injunction and $6,000 damages. If it wins the case, the first such court test, Southwestern Bell hopes it will serve as an expensive example to other toll cheaters. Said the phone company grimly: "We will study cases of other suspected violators ... we will take such...