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...Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that he has his problems too. Among them...
...bases are overconcentrated, present big targets to Soviet air and missile power. Item: SAC's March AFB at Riverside, Calif, has 90 6-475 and 40 KC-97 tankers, and only one usable runway to get them all into the air come an emergency. The USAF needs six more bases right now, another 100 as soon as Tommy White can get them...
Dulles later told his press conference that he knew "nothing about the matter whatsoever," had referred the complaint to Defense with the request that it report back. Publicly, the Air Force replied that Zarubin could not have been talking about USAF planes because "no USAF planes have been flying over Soviet territory." Privately, U.S. airmen expressed surprise at the charges. In the past, the trigger-jumpy Russians have first shot down non-Communist planes in the vicinity of their borders, lodged their protests afterwards. If a U.S. plane had indeed been over Soviet territory for 2½ hours...
Another big aircraft manufacturer got a big order last week. The Air Force announced a $100 million contract to Lockheed for the single-jet F-104A, which USAF Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining describes as "the fastest, highest-flying fighter in the air anywhere." The order follows a $100 million contract placed by Eastern Air Lines last month for 40 Lockheed Electra turboprop airliners and an Air Force order last fortnight for "over $100 million" worth of C-130A Hercules cargo planes, boosting Lockheed's backlog to over $1.4 billion...
...founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones as a Northrop subsidiary; and chairman of the Holga Metal Products Co. (steel filing cabinets) of Van Nuys, Calif. A Northrop director since 1952, when Radioplane merged with the company, Collins replaces the late Major General Oliver P. Echols, USAF...