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This year big brother Lindy matured into one of the best pitchers in the league, by last week had a 7-3 record. Better yet, young Von was fooling major-league batters as efficiently as he fooled the high-school kids back home, was unscored on after 17 innings of...
To soothe both sides, the subcommittee suggested that its chairman, Louisiana's Overton Brooks, approach Pentagon and National Guard with a compromise: institute until June 30, 1958 the eleven-week training plan for 17-18½-year-olds, with a bonus for six-month volunteers, i.e., instead of spending...
Previously, those inducted into the Army were required to serve two years of active service, three years ready reserve, and one year in the standby reserve. Draftees will now spend two years of their six year "obligation" on active duty, two years in the ready reserve, and the last two...
Across the nation and around the free world this week the headlines blazed a New Year's warning to world Communism: the U.S. would tolerate no Communist move into any part of the Middle East, and would fight, if necessary, to prevent it. President Eisenhower intends to 1) request...
Fifth Day. The Anglo-French Canberras, Venom Mark 45 and Corsairs finished the destruction of the Egyptian air force on the ground, then turned to strafing and bombing Egyptian motor convoys and strategic points which might hinder the landing in the Canal Zone. In frustration, the Egyptians sank seven blockships...