Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Packed Living. Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, Koje's debonair commander, has a 7,000-man force, including a first-rate U.S. outfit and two smaller South Korean units. Though not otherwise boastful about camp conditions, U.S. officers take pride in the fact that guard brutality to prisoners is at a minimum: the trouble is prisoner to prisoner...
...series hopefully designed to protect a vital new supply route for U.S. and NATO forces in Europe. But there are no barracks, only tents. The wing's hospital is a jerry-built wooden structure whose ceiling drips water. The wing itself-the only U.S. tactical air outfit anywhere in France-is just as unready. The 126th is an Illinois Air National Guard outfit, originally an observation squadron which served in the Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen...
...eight seats on the regular U.S.-bound T.W.A. plane too few to set aside for one of his 30-odd sons? A special plane was wheeled up. Aramco tried its best to anticipate Ibn Saud's every wish, from arranging lend-lease for Saudi Arabia and a cowboy outfit for one of the young princes to furnishing limousines, sweet water and gleaming refrigerators. U.S. technicians headed for duty in Saudi Arabia were assiduously schooled in Arab courtesy. No Christian chapel was built on the Aramco concession for fear of offending Ibn Saud's hard-shell Moslem subjects...
Though ECA is ended, the spending goes on under a new name and with a new purpose. The new outfit (headed by Averell Harriman) is the Mutual Security Agency; key word in MSA is "security" as "economic" was in ECA. In 1952, MSA will spend $6 billion, mostly in arms, in Europe alone. The U.S. taxpayer will hardly notice the difference...
...little to worry about: he made close to $100,000 last year by taking off in his own groove. Pittsburgh-born, he started at the piano when he was three, playing by ear the music he heard on the phonograph. At seven, he turned pro, played piano with an outfit called the Candy Kids on a Pittsburgh radio station. He has played with bands, but now settles for a trio ("Three's a crowd, three's enough...