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What Truman seemed to have forgotten: in 1948 the Republican 80th Congress approved a 70-group Air Force, but Harry Truman insisted that 48 was enough. In 1949, still maintaining that 48 was plenty, he "placed in reserve" $615 million that Congress had appropriated to get 58 groups going. One big reason Truman gave at that time: Such a big expenditure on the Air Force might be too great a strain on the domestic economy...
Bertrand Russell (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC). Filmed interview with Russell on his 80th birthday: "Eighty Years of Changing Beliefs and Unchanging Hopes...
...Policy (the Finletter Board) had aptly entitled its 1947 report Survival in the Air Age, and recommended a fast buildup to 70 groups by 1952, on the assumption that it would take the Russians until 1952 to get the atomic bomb. The 80th Congress, which Harry Truman still denounces, overwhelmingly approved the 70 group program. But in early 1948, over the protests of Spaatz and then-Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington, the President of the U.S. announced: "The Air Force needs 48 groups, not 70." The following year he impounded a special $615 million Air Force appropriation voted...
Last year Swett finished 80th out of 191 entrants...
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 80th year of publication for the University's undergraduate daily, now known as THE HARVARD CRIMSON...