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Last week, as the Soviets hotted up their cold war against the Allies in Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), the Air Force announced that by mid-August it would double its fighter force in Germany with jet fighters. The mission fell to the crack 36th Fighter Wing, a self-contained tactical unit now stationed at Albrook Field in the Panama Canal Zone...
Moscow's Pravda did some boasting last week in honor of Press Day, marking its 36th birthday. In 30 years, said Pravda, the Russian press has grown from 884 to 7,163 papers with 31,100,000 circulation. Pravda alone claimed 2,200,000, which made it Russia's biggest and the world's fourth biggest daily.* Pioneer Pravda, for young Communists, was second with 1,000,000, and Izvestia third with...
Last week brought "Double Ten" (the tenth day of the tenth month) again in China-the 36th anniversary of the founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
Every time Louise hit the ball, father Johnny Suggs looked anxiously on with the appearance of a man protecting a one-run lead with the bases loaded. At the 34th hole, the match was even. At the 35th, Louise was one up. At the 36th, Louise's tee shot faded into the rough and her father was half afraid to look. Calmly she selected a club, wiggled once and sent a tremendous wood shot to the green. Then she curved a putt around a partial stymie and the ball dropped into the cup. That gave her the match...
...proposal was made by E. Scully Bradley, chairman of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, who demanded more of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wait Whitman while asserting at the 36th annual meeting, held in Atlantic City, that three-quarters of the country's high school teachers of English were trained primarily in English literature...