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...that the Air Force has realized its budget will not justify overproduction of non-flying officers, it has cut AFROTC enrollment. This year's bumper crop of college seniors is the last, and the commissioning problem will not occur again. With little extra expense and a temporary Defense Department exception on the service's officer quota, the Air Force could honor its commitment. The AFROTC's over-recruitment four years ago should not hold back the commissions which these three thousand officer-candidates desire and deserve...
Puccini: Tosco (Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The seventh complete version of Puccini's old pulse-bumper, and one of the best. The name part is sung fervently and in high style by Brooklyn-born Soprano Callas...
...trucks in the U.S. this year v. 7,000,000 last year, the most optimistic estimate in the industry. G.M.'s new $1 billion expansion program, which is in addition to the $2 billion already spent since war's end, will give Chevrolet a new spring-and-bumper plant and another small-parts factory in Flint, Mich...
...Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered a ten-minute recess for every tent, and instructed his officers to see that explanations were not dragged...
...into the U.S. last year). He is particularly taken with such fairly new products as baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes as the Globetrotter Gadget Bag ("Leather-covered sponge rubber bumper for carrying against body," $42.50) ; Steineck A-B-C Camera ("Straps to the wrist . . . brilliant finder for sighting at waist level," $150); Flexing Powelites ("Portable Sunshine . . . adjust your lights to any desired position...