ARMED FORCES: The Finish Flag

In the Strategic Air Command, a favorite bull-session yarn tells of a new sergeant at Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base who stopped on a stroll around the post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion for sports cars had been noted and frowned...

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