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...units, regimental tank companies, etc.), all of the new division and its specially designed, lightweight equipment can be airlifted. At its heart will be five self-supporting battle groups, each 1,580 men strong, and each containing a 155-man 105-millimeter mortar group and a small (220) headquarters outfit. The groups, broken down into five battle companies each, will be backed up in combat by an atom-armed 140-man Honest John rocket detachment, by a 500-man 105-howitzer group, plus engineers, signal and supply people...
Missing Line. In the show last week the men of the 101st-many of them veterans of the World War II outfit-turned out with a roar to show off their skills. The high point of the day was the firing of an Honest John rocket, which set off a simulated atomic blast. The rocket launcher, however, was borrowed; a fact which symptomized one of the joist's current ills. It has yet to get much of its equipment...
BIGGEST CAR DEAL in history will be closed by Hertz Corp. and local affiliates. For $33 million, nation's biggest auto rental outfit will buy 15,600 new 1957 models, 75% of them sedans (Chevrolets, Fords, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Cadillacs), the rest convertibles, sports cars (probably Thunderbirds) and station wagons...
...strains on John and Mary's marriage are, luckily, all external. John is a good writer gone wrong as an advertising manager. John's boss is the bottom-pinching proprietor of an outfit that manufactures "PulseBeat Eternal Non-Magnetic" watches. Trouble arrives with Besame Bessamer, the boss's stepdaughter, whose pulse beat, particularly when she is near John, is entirely too magnetic. Along the way of his thin plot, Author Tanner looses his most devastating attacks on flossy Manhattan restaurants and nightclubs catering to lovers of bad food, overpriced booze and rotten entertainment-the result being...
invited Bunny to join his outfit-the Royal Naval Division. Instead, Pacifist Bunny plumped for a corner of an English field and ended up in Surrey digging turnips and forking dung for a farmer...