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...starred C-54s of the Air Transport Command brought a stream of tight-lipped generals and high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...
...much to lay the foundations for a world community. But when the member nations still retain the power to enter into armed conflict, advancements can mean little. World government must not follow these functional developments, but precede them. The UN can study, debate, recommend; it cannot legislate, inspect, enforce...
...first Sunday it was open, thousands upon thousands of Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, most of them patients and friends of 72-year-old Dr. William, came to inspect the clinic and attend Lutheran services inside. Its rooms were banked high with flowers from Winonans, whom the old doctor had attended for 51 years. The Heise boys beamed. Dr. William tried not to look too proud...
This seemed to mean that, in return for a chance for Soviet citizens to inspect atomic plants in the U.S. and elsewhere, Russia would let non-Soviet citizens peer (to some still undefined degree) at what Russia was doing...
Crows see a good deal of native folk art in Japan, and sheer away from it on sight. G.I.s got a chance to inspect the same art at closer range last week when the farmers of the little village of Narita topped off a four-day summer festival with an exhibition of their best new scarecrows...