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...crash of a C124 Globemaster near Tokyo in 1953, killing 129 U.S. servicemen, was the world's worst single-plane disaster. The greatest catastrophe in aviation history occurred in 1960, when two airliners collided over New York, at a cost of 134 lives...
...Determined to raise a conscript army in addition to the existing workers' militia, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's regime sent out draft orders to 524,000 men. The move provoked a rare outburst of vocal opposition. Ex-servicemen wrote indignant letters to the press recalling their pledge-signed when they were released from Soviet P.W. camps-never to bear arms again. In embarrassed newspeak, Communist officials reassured the veterans that they "need not worry about breaking the pledge. You are being called to protect freedom, to help the Soviet Union protect the working class...
...coffee and mealtime breaks, ended at 10:30 p.m., Schwarz's catechumens filed into the auditorium, their number increasing as the week went on. They got their money's worth ($20 per person for the week's sessions, with half-price admittance for students, teachers, clergymen, servicemen, police and firemen). Seated on a high stool behind a lectern on a stage otherwise bare, except for an American flag, Schwarz put on a flashing performance...
...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Highlights of Hope's Christmastime tour to entertain servicemen in the North Atlantic, with Jayne Mansfield, Jerry Colonna...
...continuing source of friction in Japan, which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income on defense and relies on the U.S. for its protection, U.S. airbases and 45,000 servicemen (fewest since the occupation) inevitably stir resentment in the world's most densely populated country. U.S. resumption of nuclear tests in the atmosphere would provoke violent reaction. But by far the biggest problem for Japan, the world's second biggest market for U.S. goods, is the Administration...