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...prospect of political wrangling over the responsibility for defense shortfalls has already cast its shadow over the session of Congress that begins next week. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Ready for the Brawl. One point of U.S. defense policy that deserves the most serious debate is the rising argument for some sort of U.S. general staff system in the Pentagon, an argument that has defenders of the present system warning of the dangers of a Bismarck-like Prussian general staff, the reform-minded warning of the dangers of present-day disorganization. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward a U.S. General Staff...
...amended in 1949, expressly forbids "a single Chief of Staff over the armed forces [or] an armed forces general staff." Instead, it requires that the individual service chiefs of staff double in brass as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which functions under a nonvoting chairman as a sort of advisory committee seeking unified military policy...
...offer physics or chemistry. To make matters worse, the U.S. Immigration Service last month told Belin's 17 foreign students that they could stay in the U.S. only if attending accredited institutions. None of them knew until they arrived that Belin Memorial U. has no accreditation of any sort...
There are no leg irons sunk in the walls, but otherwise it is the sort of place the Count of Monte Cristo might have tunneled from. And the whole scruffy establishment is doomed: next summer it will be razed to make room for a new, antiseptic office building. The liabilities of the Downstairs Room, a dark, crowded cellar on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, are impressive even at a time when small informal nightspots are cashing in (TIME. May 27). What brings full basements (legal limit: 80 customers) to the Downstairs these nights is a small, eccentric troupe of humorists...
...displayed big black eyes and a set of irrefutable (because unstatable) notions of a vaguely ethical tinge; e.g., "Truth being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized." He lived on vegetables, and on the front page, and the wonder is that he managed to preserve a sort of dignity amid the spiritual circus that Theosophists created about...