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...Gallup's findings hit the Pentagon, they created one of the greatest flaps since the Battle of the Bulge. Navy brass was furious, promptly suspected that the Air Force was responsible for the poll and story. Unless Washington has changed, the part of the service that will expand quickest is Navy public relations...
...earnings have dropped sharply and Fleet Street buzzed with rumors that it was about to fold. Last week, in time's nick, the Graphic was saved. Publisher Kemsley sold it to Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch. "It's been the quickest deal I've ever known," said one Rothermere executive. "And the best-kept secret," Fleet Streeters hastened...
Extra helpings of desserts, meats, and milk have been curtailed in an effort to forestall future hikes in board rate, as food products are the quickest to react to inflationary trends...
Although the national-defense plank was not in his realm, Dulles had a hand in it, too. When he learned that the original draft leaned toward air-power-only policy, which Ike opposed, he suggested that it be rewritten. Result: a plank which called for "the quickest possible development of . . . completely adequate air power and the simultaneous readiness of coordinated air, land and sea forces...
...that he was fed up walloping English kids. He wished he could bash a couple of Yanks but he didn't want to get his father into trouble. On the whole, says Headmaster Tallard, the Dutch and British pupils are the best behaved, the French and Americans the quickest at learning...