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...after day Walker went back to the front, frequently using airplanes, including grasshopping liaison craft, and always refusing fighter cover. One trip took him to the east coast to inspect the 1st Cavalry's landing area at Pohang (see above). Walker had always been a man to avoid the limelight, a quality which had long endeared him to less modest superiors. Now he was, willy-nilly, caught in the glare of public attention and public concern...
...left his special car for an automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host...
Harry Truman, ex-artilleryman and now Commander in Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force, flew down a day later to inspect the 3rd Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. (where he fired a 105-mm. howitzer battery). Then he went on to watch Air Force bombing and rocket firing at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base...
...year-old president-elect stated he did not plan to visit the alumni groups between now and June, but would complete some writing commitments and then inspect other universities. He will be relieved of his teaching duties immedately...
...human brain as the first industrial revolution devalued the human arm. He points out that only a few hand workers can now compete with power-driven machines. Soon, he warns, there will be wholly automatic factories with artificial brains keeping track of every process. They will order raw materials, inspect them, store them, route them through the plant. They will pay bills, blow the factory whistle and pay the help...