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TIME's TRIBUTE TO COMMANDER IN CHIEF DE LATTRE AND FRANCE RESURGENT [SEPT. 24] EVOKES IN THE BREASTS OF PEOPLE WHO COUNT FREEDOM FIRST SOMETHING OF THE EXALTATION THAT ELECTRIFIED AMERICAN AUDIENCES DURING WORLD WAR I WHEN "THE MARSEILLAISE' RANG OUT . . . TODAY LET'S EQUIP FRANCE'S MACARTHUR TO CONSOLIDATE HIS TREMENDOUS GAINS TOWARD ENDING WORLD CHAOS...
...recalls. "They asked me how big a unit they should send. Before I could answer, they told me they'd decided on a division as a starter. It took some talking to get them down to a brigade, which at that time was the largest unit we could equip and send off right away...
...precaution against A-bombs, the Esso Standard Oil Co. last week announced that it is setting up emergency offices on a 50-acre tract near Morristown, N.J., 35 miles from its Manhattan headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Esso will equip its new offices with typewriters, files, microfilmed records. If an "acute deterioration of international relations" makes Manhattan look unhealthy, the company will move a clerical staff to the country offices, rotate its top officials between the two headquarters...
...Under the mass demand for higher degrees, the graduate schools have expanded enormously, often developing a mechanically given doctoral degree. Departmental barriers are accentuated as given departments become larger in personnel and budget. Given over mainly to preparing college teachers, the graduate schools equip their students to fulfill one special niche. This is part of the whole vocationalizing of education--the preparation of people to fulfill technical requirements and skills for immediate adjustment...
...accurate fire with a wet, fogged-up sight." Another objection, and a big one, is that other NATO nations use rifles of heavier than .28-cal. (some being supplied by the U.S., free). To switch to a new caliber, retool the plants (in the U.S.) and equip whole armies with the British piece, would cost billions of dollars and years of time, not to mention scrapping huge stocks of .30-cal. rifles and ammunition...