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Over in Asia, another History Department "cloak and dagger boy" was at work. John K. Fairbank, now Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, battled the Hump, inflation, poverty, and disease as he attempted--rather unsuccessfully, he thinks--to gather information on the Japanese and to distribute microfilmed American publications to Chinese universities...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The best of the current film documentaries does one of the most exciting of the war tales: Burma Road and the Hump...
...first-rate Army Air Forces pilot in World War II-he was one of ten in the ferry command who volunteered to ferry P-475 across the Atlantic, later flew The Hump from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide...
...Metro manager to bring the new super-city government's power to bear on such decisions: San Diego City Manager O. W. Campbell, 52, public-administration specialist. Picked by the five-man Metro commission-i.e., the old county commission with its administrative authority delegated to the manager-"Hump" Campbell went on the payroll at $35,000 a year, highest paid public official in the state. A determined man, he efficiently attacked the county's "wasteful, sprawling monstrosity incapable of rendering efficient and economical service." He streamlined the 35 old departments down to 17, economized to give...
...aerie at Berchtesgaden. From morning golf and afternoon angling he took off just enough time to make a short statement for the American Forces Network on the preparedness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: "We still have some way to go, but we are now over the hump. Our strength is very real and very significant...