Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dispersal: SAC's and TAC's bases are overconcentrated, present big targets to Soviet air and missile power. Item: SAC's March AFB at Riverside, Calif, has 90 6-475 and 40 KC-97 tankers, and only one usable runway to get them all into the air come an emergency. The USAF needs six more bases right now, another 100 as soon as Tommy White can get them...
...Gardner) and home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations often make nice contrasts to the truth...
...Commerce Commission will look kindly upon the request. When the rails got their last rate raise in August, the ICC conceded that it was not enough, and invited them to come back for "further moderate increases." But ICC stipulated that this time the rails must ask for rate increases item by item, rather than an overall boost...
...older generation of movie heroes who can still walk into a closeup without pinning up his jowls. And even a bad line somehow seems great when Gary pays it out as smooth as tooth paste. As for a good line, he can drop it like a radioactive potato. Item: "What is your ex-wife calling you about?" asks Actress Parker. And Grant, fumbling for a bottle, murmurs vaguely: "Dunno. Maybe she wants to consummate the divorce...
Indonesia's swaggering President Sukarno almost never takes off his black military-cut pitji in public: he doesn't like to reveal the fact that he is getting balder as the years go by. But protective covering is not the only item in Sukarno's bag of political tricks. If Indonesia is in mild difficulty, Sukarno blames "Western colonialism"; if the country's difficulties begin to cause visible concern at home, he produces hair-raising tales of Dutch, English and U.S. sabotage; and when things really get bad, he trots out the tired, threadbare but ever...