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AVIATION GENERALS: Retired Marine Corps Gen. Tom...

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AVIATION GENERALS: Retired Marine Corps Gen. Tom Riley (above) will get his name on the new airport terminal (B4), his fellow supervisors decided Tuesday, but an East Coast airport-name debate involving another former general remains alive. . . . In Washington, backers of Dwight D. Eisenhower are pushing to have his name replace that of his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, on the international airport in suburban Virginia. . . . Regardless of the terminal name here, the spotlight will likely remain focused on the airport’s namesake, John Wayne, who missed out on military service but still became a symbol of the American warrior.

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