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...know how many of the features I've sent back are getting printed, but I suppose a lot of the tactical stuff gets play. Most startling to a civilian eye: the total destruction of some towns; the filthy, disease-ridden, starved condition of most off the Koreans; the GI's casual acceptance of battle and death while he bitches about the mud, the dust, the food, the officers, the hills that must be climbed, the months and months away from home; the politicking in the Army; and what seems to be the uselessness of this war as we go back...
...said, "Genuine Chino Trousers." Vag stopped and looked at the trousers, smooth and careful as they hung in the window, then he turned and went into the store. It would be getting warmer, thought Vag, and the way things stood now, at least, a couple of pairs of cheap GI pants might be pretty hard to come...
...know, the present trays were made when the metal shortage got rough during the war, by grinding up salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly...
There are more problems than that. The legal prospects include a decision on who owns the clouds, and other questions equally without precedent. Fear of suits has led General Electric to work with the Army Signal Corps, so that a GI hand tosses the dry ice from the plane...
...Scholarship Committee seeks a means to take over, in part, where the GI Bill is leaving off. It is now making both immediate and long range progress, and possibly by 1952 when the sudden decline in scholarship help threatens to come, the College will have established an effective system to maintain its financial aid resources...