Favored to succeed Air Force Chief Thomas White, 59, who is planning to retire this summer, is Vice Chief Curtis LeMay, 54, the brambly former SAC commander. LeMay, a military "conservative," molds his thinking around here-and-now weapons rather than futuristic ones on the drawing board. Thus Air Force research and development leaders are still bucking his appointment.
Home in London after her eleven-day tour of Italy, Queen Elizabeth was still getting rave notices from her recent hosts. Even Rome's leftist weekly, L'Espresso, found it "almost a miracle" that she remained composed during her...
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