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...front was not necessarily a sign that the Reds were using the truce talks only as a screen for preparing an offensive or that they expected the talks to fail. The U.N. was also diligently plugging away at a buildup of its own. The Air Force was diverting the 116th Bomber Wing, originally earmarked for NATO, to Korea. The Navy was sending over the carrier Essex, two cruisers, a complement of destroyers. Though the Army and Marine Corps were rotating personnel rapidly, the flow of replacements made sure that there would be no weakening of ground strength...
...fields will take a sizable area of arable soil, and French politicians, their eyes on the farm vote, are reluctant to do anything about getting the necessary land. The first U.S. air reinforcements, the 116th Fighter Bomber Wing, due to land in France by July, will probably find no bases available there, may have to go to Britain instead where construction of new fields, able to handle jets, is well under...
...When I see you on the street," President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked his Columbia University students, "will you please say 'hello'-because some people who don't belong to the university occasionally pass me on 116th Street and they think I'm crazy when I say hello...
...Yorkers got a good idea last week of what scientists look like. Fifteen thousand of them converged on Manhattan for the 116th convention of the "Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave. They streamed from meeting to meeting, interrupted the speakers, held sub-conclaves in corners. Even a casual glance at the Triple-A S gave proof that U.S. science is on its toes, confident and properly concerned with running down facts...
Much Too Strong. At the 116th annual convention of the North Carolina Baptists in Asheville there was no Pastor Rabun. Pressed for time during their first day's session, the 1,000-odd delegates rushed through unanimous approval of their Social Service Committee report without realizing it contained the statement that ". . . segregation of believers . . . into racial or class churches is a denial of the New Testament affirmation of the equality of all believers at the foot of the Cross, and alien to the spirit of Christ, the Head of the church...