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Most military officers ordered to Washington share the common problem of finding a place to live in the jampacked city. The topmost brass, however, is supposed to be an exception: ranking generals and admirals are provided with comfortable, government-owned quarters, staffed with enlisted servants. But in the postwar star-burst of promotions, even the high command began to develop a housing headache. Last week it turned into a top-level crisis that shook the Pentagon to its highest council chambers and had the nation's foremost military men scurrying around Washington, grabbing houses like kids in a game...
...Repealed the "use it or lose it" leave law, and restored the right of Government workers to accumulate up to 60 days' annual leave. At the same time the bill prohibits 500 of the topmost Government officials from collecting cash settlements for unused vacations...
Demands are most critical now for men to fill the aerodynamics groups. Men in this group are more concerned with the physics of flight than those in others. The duties of the topmost of several jobs in this group are to conduct the preliminary analysis of new or modified airplane designs...
...CHURCH "And now to God the Father," he ends, And his voice thrills up to the topmost tiles: Each listener chokes as he bows and bends, And emotion pervades the crowded aisles. Then the preacher glides to the vestry-door, And shuts it, and thinks he is seen no more...
...months, the argument had gone on quietly but insistently at Washington's topmost levels. Should the U.S. seek a peace treaty with Japan? Yes, said the State Department; the time had come to bring a sovereign Japan back into the free world. No, the Pentagon protested; the U.S. did not dare withdraw its occupation troops and leave Japan wide open to Communist aggression...