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...numbered a vast 2,500,000 men-200,000 in action stations facing the Formosa Strait-and its air force of 400 tactical bombers and 1,600 jet fighters was backed up by the 2,300 planes of the U.S.S.R.'s Far East command. The Chinese Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including 90,000 on Quemoy, 25,000 on Matsu-and an air force of 400 jet fighters spearheaded by F-86 Sabre jet interceptors of Korean-war vintage. The U.S. had in the area the 100-ship, 300-or-so-plane Seventh Fleet, the Fifth...
...Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made him in 1954 Archbishop of Milan, Italy's largest diocese. Here, working his usual 18 hours a day, Montini has modernized the archdiocese and successfully challenged the biggest guns that the Communists can muster. Membership in Milan's Red unions has declined notably since his arrival...
...When Betty, five months old, was brought to the agency, she was so underweight and listless that she was unable to muster a good cry even when she was hungry. Betty was found in the street by a city employee...
...recent tales pass Critic Barzun's muster...
...first half, which ended with the score 20 to 20, neither side was able to muster an effective offense. Sophomore Bob Bowditch scored the first two Crimson points on a jump shot after Ken Ratzan had given Amherst the lead with three minutes gone...