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Last week, a group of experts of the Hoover Commission* leveled further criticism at the unification plan. The committee reported that: 1) "the military services are far too prodigal with Government funds"; and 2) "the continuance of intense interservice rivalries hampers and confuses sound policy at many points . . ."
Under the Roof. Defense Secretary Forrestal has insisted from the beginning that unification must be gradual. It is, he said, like trying to bring General Motors, U.S. Steel, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward together under one roof. As the Hoover Commission noted, he had, after a year and a half...
¶Put off until April Israel's application for U.N. membership, but set up a Palestine Conciliation Commission (members: U.S., France, Turkey) to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
In agreeing to lend the little David as a token of "friendly feelings" toward the U.S., Italy's Fine Arts Commission broke a Mussolini-enacted law against exporting Italian art treasures. Never before has a Michelangelo statue-actually carved by Michelangelo, that is-been exhibited in the U.S.
The 1,825-mile pipeline was the brain child of Houston's Ray C. Fish, 46, president of Fish Engineering Corp., who had built the Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline, and Claude A. Williams, an .unsuccessful bidder for the Government's Big Inch. Once they had steered their Transcontinental...