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Last week the Congress also: ¶ Voted in the House to give Songstress Jane Froman $138,205 for crippling injuries suffered in a Pan American World Airways crash at Lisbon in 1943 while she was on a troop-entertaining mission. The amount of damages that Miss Froman could collect from the airline was limited to $9,050 (including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct...
...route, he replied, "As many as we are, we all go, or nobody goes." To those who tried to pay him (the standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around Capodistria, Carmelo and his refugees were sweating out the arrival of nightfall in a cottage when there came a knock at the door. Carmelo ordered the refugees out the back window, calmly opened the door, tossed out a grenade, slammed the door and escaped through the back window...
...moneysaving troop cuts aroused neither joy nor grave misgivings among service planners. U.S. muscle, they agreed, will suffer little. The Army will come down from 1,000,000 to 950,000, but will keep its 17 authorized divisions; the Navy, from 875,000 (including 200,000 Marines) to 850,000, will maintain combat units at authorized size, keep the Marines at three divisions; the Air Force, from 925,000 to 900,000, will make no cuts in combat outfits. One probable overall effect: a further cutback in draft calls...
...Arabian peninsula, was one possibility, but Sandys found the climate unbearable (120° in the shade during his visit), and facilities generally limited. Kenya, on the other hand, offered attractive possibilities. The climate in the highlands is salubrious, and there is plenty of room and rugged country for troop training as well as fairly good communications and storage facilities. Mombasa, an Indian Ocean seaport the royal navy wants to develop now that it is losing Trincomalee in Ceylon, has direct communications with the Persian Gulf, without permission of Nasser. Finally, now that the Mau Mau are quelled, the Kenya natives...
...methodically filled in the details of the U.S. plan in London, day by day. He proposed an immediate cut of U.S. and Russian forces to 2,500,-ooo each (an old figure that both sides have used at one time or another). A second-and third-stage cut bringing troop strength down to 1,700,000 could be left to the future and would depend on "political conditions...