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Good, Bad, Indifferent. Against the common danger, the U.S. was slowly mobilizing its defenses. Eighteen months ago, President Truman had ordered up a study of civilian defense. Last fortnight the National Security Resources Board issued a careful, lengthy set of instructions to local governments. Net of NSRB's study: the states must be primarily responsible for organizing themselves and for their own welfare in the event of attack; they would get some federal aid in stockpiling and training...
That night, the news broke. Johnson's resignation and the President's deadpan answer were given to the press. The man whom, only a fortnight before, Harry Truman had insisted he would not fire, was fired.* White, choked up, Johnson faced photographers on his way in to one of the last Cabinet meetings that he would attend...
Manpower will be raised by means of a recent increase of the military service (draft) period from 18 months to two years, and by regular army enlistments, spurred by last fortnight's 75% increase in soldier's pay. By the end of 1951, Attlee hopes that Britain will have ten regular divisions, twelve territorial (reserve) divisions...
...When one is very old, as I am," George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1946, "one of the unpleasant things seems to be that your legs give in before your head does, and you are always stumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week quite regularly . . ." Fortnight ago, while walking in the garden of his home at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, the 94-year-old playwright fell and broke his left thigh bone. Carted off to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, he soon got into an argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted...
...help Gossard cash in on this huge boom, the directors fortnight ago elected a new president: Gonzague Alexander Savard, 47, a plump, hustling French Canadian who had climbed from office boy to president in 31 years by his talent for production and labor relations...