ce. Side by side with astronomy and Es, the more distant future will doubtthe development of a new branch of -space technology. Man will use ology to actively influence phenomena speak about a future in which the communism on earth will give the nited possibilities for developing their rgies." AM UNIVERSITY-ESSO RESEARCH AND G research team has reported to the ACADEMY OF SCIENCES what it calls. ysical evidence that life forms exist planet. DRS. BARTHOLOMEW NAGY S J. HENNESSY of Fordham, and DR. MEINSCHEIN of Esso described their a ninety-seven-year-old meteorite, ss spectrometer, infrared and ultraoscopy, and X-ray diffraction. They eorite had been examined many times out only now have analytical technced far enough to permit examinaciently minute detail. Their analysis of restrial relic revealed the presence of drocarbons, known to be similar to und in the skin of grapes and apples, roduced only in living matter. The ncluded, in part: ". . . Hydrocarbons eil meteorite resemble in many im Retiring from active Air Force service at the end of this month is BRIG. GEN. DON FLICKINGER, an officer who has contributed heavily to the concept of US man in space, not only in his most recent post as Special Assistant for Bioastronautics to the Commander, Air Force Systems Command, where he coordinated biomedical work in that command, but also in his earlier role as a principal planner of pre-NASA Air Force man-inspace programs that eventually fed into the NASA Mercury program. General Flickinger, who started his military medical career in 1934, was the medical officer of the day during the Japa nese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. promising approach 1941, and his recollections have served chroniclers of the "day of infamy." He has served in numerous medical and research posts in the Air Cry is called the sh d follow an undul Force and was the first commander of the AIRmosphere to lose it the water. The ne deployable pneuma ring the atmosphe This and other approac ow being studied a plane Division as pa landing and recov C Spe , installation, operation, maintenance and overhaul, Just V Thomas Dresser has just vacated at staff desk in the F history. It is not on the threshold when the transiti of his role. t likely that anothe blend of talents 's equally improba a man with his p tion. The reason is General himself pu ry climax of the te hen the number a he variety and criti ve had to be the p pation out of the e time, and for th al security-he had continued operatio other door for m on the General Magazine July 1961 s Dresser White, the soldier-scholar st vacated the Air Force's most imporesk in the Pentagon, has left an imprint v. It is not easy to define this imprint hreshold of military aerospace operathe transition is complete there will be ole. that another man with General White's of talents ever again will be Chief of ly improbable that USAF ever again with his particular blend of talents in e reason is simple. himself puts it, he was running USAF x of the technological revolution, at a e number of problems was matched ty and criticalness of the possibilities. to be the proper expansion of USAF's out of the atmosphere and into space. out of feet." The task of trying to hold onto exist capabilities, rush the utilization of new systems, prepare for whatever it is that technology will br next, is staggering. Eugene Zuckert, present Secretary of the Air Fo has suggested in private conversation that "the ri man for the times" doesn't always show up with el bility for the job but that "Tommy White was what the Air Force needed." Mr. Zuckert has kno General White since 1947 and, in the previous De cratic Administration, was instrumental in select the General for his first Headquarters assignment Director of Legislation and Liaison in 1948. It is both interesting and germane that Gen White never was a combat hero and that the quali that made him "just what the Air Force needed" w he became Chief of Staff four years ago are not th usually attributed to combat heroes. General White the 1924, e was usual By" in eport. e is little military folklore built around e adept in seven foreign languages, inand Chinese. te leaves the Pentagon with few critics ous enemies. He has been cussed out, Army lieutenant in the Pacific theater red too close to the enemy lines. Tommy ing that day and had a lapse when he s a war going on. He later requested a for the lieutenant. ral White's administration, the fighting AF has been drained, if that strength is he conventional yardsticks of aircraft and personnel. The number of wings om 137 in 1957 to a scheduled eighty on got fully under way almost at the that General White moved up to the placing Gen. Nathan F. Twining. Presier put White House impetus behind the e armed forces. Congress was trimming eneral White consistently stressed the the Russian threat in the face of these to find men, in uniform and out, who al White has fought a smart battle but or Air Force interests. Members of his ning with ire and straining for conflict, ly reminded by the Chief that they are w. Lt. White was acting military attaché bassador William Bullitt, second from right. at Leningrad upside down but uninjured. expert fisherm wer the world and This is a silver there was a touch o g in political circle area where victory mind," General W gnificant that Sov of space have a hom their lunar pr directed at Venus ce has been conce logical area for th space power... [t -truly a major et of effective spac parent that the So e research and de would like to acquir 1961 |