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...expected to know the difference between JAMAG (Joint American Military Assistance Group), MAPAG (Military Assistance Program Advisory Group) and the numerous MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Groups). There were hazards. A U.S. Navy officer, puzzled at being assigned to Strategic Air Command, Europe, found that a clerk had mis-deciphered his anagram according to an earlier official list, that he was actually assigned to SACEUR, that is, Ike. Any CPUBINFO could have set him straight. So could DCLOGA (Deputy Chief of Staff Logistics and Administration...
...unexplainable fit of reaction, the CRIMSON yesterday mis-stated the position of Vera M. Dean, foreign affairs analyst. Mrs. Dean suggested that if possible the United States support reform governments, and, if necessary, dictatorships...
...ready for the 35-pound weight, the high jump, the broad jump, or the pole vault. The Crusader relay teams, containing most of their respectable middle-distance runners, will be in New York. Dan Kelly and Dick Ahearn, outstanding in the 600 and mile respectively, are lost to the mis-scheduling...
Dean Watson explained that the action was not one of banning the John Reed Club but rather banning a group "mis- representing itself as the John Reed Club." "You have to be a member of an organization if you want to plan a meeting for that group," he added...
...dangerously misleading. Most inaccurate of the lot are the comparative U. S.-Russia military strength tables. The armed forces presumably have accurate intelligence information on Russian strength but magazines can't get at this data--the tables are based on "reliable sources," generally shrewd conjecture. And quantitive figures are mis-leading. Russia's land strength is numerically impressive, for example, but military men point out that most Russian divisions have been more or less inactivated, just like our own. The Russian air force is large but considerably outmoded, and there is a lot of evidence that the Soviets are having...