ARMED FORCES: The Five Nests

Word got around that Major General Orvil A. Anderson's lectures at the Air Force's Air War College were something to hear. For three and four hours the general, a crack airman and one of the Air Force's smartest officers, would privately lecture the officers on the advisability of launching an A-bomb attack on Russia. One day last week a reporter from the Montgomery Advertiser trotted over to Maxwell Field, Ala. to see if he could put the general's words on the record.

The answer was yes. Orvil Anderson, 55, had been an airman in World War I, deputy commander of...

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