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...achieve even 120 wings, the Air Force would have to skeletonize transport and tactical units and cut its long-range assault outfit, the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, from 57 to 52 wings. It would also have to supplement current funds with "holdover" money appropriated during the Truman Administration. After 1956. the holdover Truman money will be gone. Then, unless its budget has been increased again in the meantime, the Air Force will have to trim down to 79 wings, about three-quarters of its present strength (103 wings...
...organization like the Junge Gemeinde might seem to many teen-agers an uninteresting outfit. A loose association of young Christians, both Evangelical and Roman Catholic, it holds meetings devoted to Bible reading, religious discussion, songs and games, and its members sometimes help out as ushers and collection takers in churches. But in the Eastern zone of Germany, the Junge Gemeinde (Youth Congregation) has offered a God-given opportunity for a few stimulating gulps of fresh spiritual...
...haunting him. The sight of the Moslems praying towards Mecca five times a day had given Foucauld, a freethinker from the age of 14 "a glimpse of something greater and truer than anything I had hitherto seen in the worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white men had done...
...Never Say "Never Again" Again (Benny Goodman & His Orchestra; Columbia). A brand-new recording by the old King of Swing, who has now assembled a star-studded outfit for a sentimental journey across the U.S.* Except for a slight tendency toward middle-aged conservatism (he plays fewer notes nowadays), 1953 Goodman sounds much like the 1938 variety. Songbird Helen Ward's voice is as sweet as ever...
Tautest sequence: the circus' climactic race across the guarded border in broad daylight. Under the guise of giving a parade, the whole ramshackle outfit tumbles past police watchtowers and barbed wire barricades in a helter-skelter jumble of sentry gunfire, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, performing dogs, ponies, elephants and lumbering circus wagons. At this point, the picture takes on a movingly nightmarish quality...