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...means of bookkeeping switches, Budget Director Joseph Dodge was able to trim Harry Truman's 1954 defense budget from $41.5 billion to $38 billion with little or no damage to buildup goals. But last week Dodge let the Pentagon know that he plans to get the 1955 budget down to $35 billion by cutting: 1) the Air Force's goal from 143 groups to 110, and 2) the Navy's supercarrier program (from three carriers to two) and other naval activities. With the approval of Defense Secretary Wilson, Dodge issued an order restraining the Air Force, which...
D.S.M. to G.O.P. Through it all, Oveta managed to seem both completely military and completely feminine. She was a memorable figure around the Pentagon, with her trim uniform, Pallas Athene insigne, prematurely silver hair (recently retouched maturely black) and visored "Hobby hat" (which looked fine on Oveta and terrible on most other women...
...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...
Appearance: 5 ft. 10 in., trim, blue-eyed...
Blundell arrived in Kenya 18 years ago as a "farm pupil." During the war he bought the site of his present farm. It was virgin bush. Today it is a trim model farm, with neat contours and terraces, fields of asparagus (canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...