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...officers on active duty in all the services, only 89,000 are regulars (only 17% of the Air Force's commissioned personnel are career men), and most of the rest intend to become civilians again at the first opportunity...
...record fall this year. The book's polls are almost useless. Only three of them add up to 100% of those polled. One amounts to 121%, one to 97%, two to 96%; one each to 95%, 94%, 93%, 92%, and 91%. In response to "How many children do you intend to have?", for example 23% of 1956 is represented as answering "one or two"; 56%, "Three or four"; 13%, "more than four"; and 3%, "none...
...students who expect to return to the College next September must file a card signed by their tutor or freshman adviser indicating the four courses they intend to take next semester. The choice of courses may be altered next fall...
...helter-skelter, as real life (a job, the rent, bills, relatives) runs roughshod over them. Chick and his best friend Nickie Sherman see themselves as continental wits, though fate has set them down in the town of Decency, Conn. But when they finish the play they are writing, they intend to take care of that. Wise Acres is the name of the play, and into it they have tooled such precious dialogue as: "There's Ronnie Ten Eyck. He's living with his mother." "Oh, really? I thought that was all over...
...chief of staff to General Mark Clark in World War II, to be SHAPE chief of staff under Eisenhower in 1951 (and under Ike's successor, Matt Ridgway), to be Supreme Allied Commander in 1953. Said Al Gruenther: "I've played tennis three times this week, and intend to win another match tomorrow." He was going to retire at the age of 57, he said, because "I entered military service as an officer on Nov. , 1918. I was a lieutenant for 16½years. I kept wondering why people at the top didn't retire, why they...