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Forty years ago in 1962, President Kennedy had one big headache and the world held its breath during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Meantime, the author was flying in huge B-52 bombers across the atlantic. Did the crews know there were thermonuclear devices on board? Did they also know that there was no effective brake on procedures once the coded attack signal was given? Did they heck. They just held the start of World War III in their hands. A fact which gives eerie radiance to the recommendation made by General Orvil Anderson of the Air Force War College, to bomb the soviets "not tomorrow, but tonight..." Read Major Don Clawson's anecdotes - some serious, some hilarious - about life in the US Air Force as a pilot and instructor, and decide which is more complicated - politics or flying?
Considers legislation to revise farm acreage restrictions for irrigation and land reclamation projects in California and to authorize Federal acquisition of California farm lands exceeding acreage restrictions for resale to WWII veterans, July 24-26 hearings were held in Sacramento, Calif.; July 27 hearing was held in Fresno, Calif.; July 28 morning and afternoon session hearings were held in Hanford, Calif.; July 28 evening session and July 29 hearings were held in Bakersfield, Calif.
Buckner looked into the wagon bed at the body, which now lay on its back, one bold onlooker having turned it to facilitate the viewing. He nodded in agreement. His lips twisted in disgust, and he found himself wondering again why he had taken a job that required him to look at the bodies of people dead by violence. James Buckner, the new police chief of Corinth, Missouri, must root out corruption and incompetence in his department, hire new officers, and avoid the pitfalls of small-town politics. When a boy playing hooky from school discovers a woman's body under the snow at the train station, Buckner drops everything else to focus on this startling development. During his investigation, he ...
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