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...part, perhaps, because it was the only proposal he had heard which would permit the Administration to take a sizable cut out of the defense budget. Eventually, Wilson himself began to deride the Air Force goal of 143 wings as "unrealistic" and "unobtainable." Flying out to Omaha to inspect the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, he sat through a briefing by SAC Commander Curtis LeMay only to comment at the end of it: "I think 57 wings for SAC is too many." And three weeks ago, when Charlie Wilson's defense budget went to Congress, it was clear...
...Chicago the Tribune, unwilling to yield to Eastern superiority, vigorously contested Edna's award of what it called "the world's championship for disgustingly filthy cities." The Trib's contention: "She should see our rats . . . rub our air between thumb and forefinger . . . inspect our alleys. Only then should she undertake to award her grand prize, and we know who would win it, hands down...
...suggestions in Saturday's editorial were not criticisms of the concepts of tutorial. We sought instead to inspect the method of presentation. In this instage the English department, In seeking a uniform approach for all groups, seems to be sacrificing the broad scope so essential tutorial for the narrow limitations of particular course
Their specific mission, explained Schnuffler Cohn, was to "see if there's waste and mismanagement, and to pin down responsibility." They also planned to question possible security risks among employees of the U.S. High Commission for Germany, and, as an added assignment, they would inspect the books on the shelves of USIS libraries. Cohn and Schine reckoned it would take them only about ten days to accomplish their staggering mission...
...libraries contained such magazines as the Nation and the New Republic* works by such authors as Agnes Smedley, Dashiell Hammett, Anna Louise Strong.) Then the pair flew off to Berlin for a quick look at the Soviet cultural center in the Russian zone. There wasn't time to inspect Berlin's American library, but in a refugee camp Cohn asked a recent trans-Curtain arrival if he knew who Senator McCarthy was. "Oh yes," the refugee replied brightly. "That is the general in Japan...