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...Peace Information Center, a Manhattan outfit which has been a wholesale distributor of the Red-sponsored Stockholm "Peace" Petition, was directed by the Department of Justice to register as agent of a foreign power...
...LeMay's training as a long-range bomber specialist, his experience as a battle pilot, nor his hard-driving temperament. Kenney's bombers spent much of their time making easy training flights, "just boring holes in the air," as one of them recalls it. LeMay picked the outfit up by the neck, shook it in a way none of the oldtimers will soon forget, and flung it across the U.S. to get ready for its mission...
...thing that most worried LeMay and his command was the possibility that their outfit could be crippled before it ever got orders to strike back. LeMay has a hunch that SAC itself offers a more tempting initial target for an all-out Russian atomic attack on the U.S. than cities like New York and Detroit. That is why he keeps his men on ever-ready alert; why all of them constantly wear sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay...
...make this re-recording the Band assembled 100 pieces of its famed 150-man outfit in Sanders Theatre last spring. Tarpaulins were draped from the balconies of the theatre to eliminate the hollow tones of the earlier album, R.C.A. Victor technicians claim that the use of the canvas along with the latest in equipment make the recordings "near perfect...
...27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division, which was hurried to the scene all the way from the south coast. The 27th is commanded by 38-year-old Colonel John ("Mike") Michaelis of Lancaster, Pa., who has made a brilliant record in the Korean war and whose outfit is being used by General Walton Walker as a roving troubleshooter. After a heavy artillery and air bombardment had rocked the Reds, Michaelis' men and the South Koreans, spearheaded by Pershing tanks, recaptured Kumhwa and drove on toward Kunwi. Thus was exorcised what Eighth Army headquarters called the "gravest threat...