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Defense Secretary Louis Johnson's big budget-pruning shears were clipping the U.S. Navy where it hurt-in the wings. Aiming at a cut of nearly $1 billion in the current budgets of the three armed services, Johnson had ordered the Navy to lop off $353 million as its share and let the admirals decide where to do the trimming. Last week the Navy was obediently dismantling 21% of its air arm to meet the new ceiling. Twenty-eight Navy and seven Marine combat squadrons were being withdrawn from service; operations were being reduced at six air bases...
...topflight Texas historian thought it would take a lot more than that. Writing in the current Southwest Review, Walter Prescott Webb, longtime professor of history at the University of Texas declared flatly that the great principle of the Republican Party itself was archaic and had been archaic for years...
Golden Era. In an article calculated to raise the hackles on Republican necks, Professor Webb looked beyond the current farm and labor vote, and got the party in his sights down "the long gunbarrel of history." Historically, said Webb, "the debate swings around a principle. The party that originates the principle and establishes it, does so in a national crisis. As long as the principle being acted upon works, it is almost impossible to dislodge the party that discovered...
During the past three years Harvard undergraduates have sent food, books, and clothing to students abroad. However, this year, by special WSSF request all funds gained in the current drive will go to aid the Universities of Pakistan, and Bombay...
...American Council on Education, of which President Conant is chairman, is protesting a current Veteran's Administration survey as being "too negative...