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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infantry Division, which in three wars fought conspicuously at Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Lô and Heartbreak Ridge, will be deactivated, replaced on garrison duty in Alaska by one of the Army's smaller, streamlined new battle groups. ¶ The Army announced that 18 antiaircraft artillery battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, Mass., which the Army has been trying to close (against congressional pressure) for eight years because it has five staffers for every patient, compared to the accepted...
Maine's U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith is in close touch with U.S. military reserve programs. Commissioned after World War II, she is now, at 59, a lieutenant colonel in the WAF reserve. Her administrative assistant, William C. Lewis Jr., is an ardent Air Force reservist ("about 90 days' " training in the past twelve months). He was passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...economic. One thought that gives Western statesmen worry is what would happen if Syria were to cut not only her Iraqi pipelines but also the Tapline route from Saudi Arabia (see map); these pipelines carry one-third of the Middle East's oil output. If Egypt chose to close the Suez at the same time, the West would really...
...whom West Berliners really liked. For twelve years, as the city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous job-defusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack...
Canada's dollar has always held close to the U.S. dollar -in value. Soon after Canada rejected the sterling system in 1853 to adopt a decimal-based monetary system, the government pegged its dollar on a par with the U.S. dollar. Later, Canadian money was freed to find its own level. In 1940 the dollar dropped to a low of 78 U.S. cents; as World War II progressed, Ottawa pegged its dollar at 90?. After Canada dropped all monetary controls again in 1950, the Canadian dollar began its slow rise to last week's high...