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...starter, the Eighteenth will have about 60 load-lugging C-828, plus the obsolescent C-468 and C-478 in the reserve troop carrier groups that the Air Force has recently mobilized. Eventually, when the two modern troop carrier wings (flying some C-1198) now in Korea return to the U.S., they will be placed in the Eighteenth...
...battle experience the airborne is a seasoned veteran with a gruff enough voice to demand its place in the sun. Last week the airborne's demands were beginning to produce results. The Air Force announced that it is setting up a new command at Greenville, S.C.-the Eighteenth Air Force-whose sole job will be carrying troopers and equipment to the battlefield...
Although the new command (along with the Ninth Air Force) will be under the administration of the Tactical Air Command, it will, in effect, give airborne outfits a separate air force of their own for the first time. Pilots and crews of the Eighteenth will train and work hand in glove with the Sand Airborne Division at nearby Fort Bragg, N.C. on the highly complex problems of airloading men and equipment and dropping them on a pinpoint target on split-second schedules...
...Eighteenth Century automatons were born of the realization that clockwork is a power source that can be used for more than just telling time. Such triumphs of ingenuity as Venice's famed Clock Tower, where the hours are struck by a pair of huge mechanical Moors, could be, and were, imitated in watches and snuff boxes made for the dandies of the day. Casanova thought himself half naked without several such showpieces about...
...Wallace Woodworth '24 continued to enlarge the Club's reportoire, vary its style, and to concentrate basically on further exploration of classical choral work. Simultaneously, and on the light side, the programs of the Club drew on the vast literature of folk songs, the glees and catches of the eighteenth century, and the gay operettas of Offenbach, Johann Strauss, and Gilbert and Sillivan...