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...team of astronomers from Indiana University who made the long trek to find out the exact location on the map of the geographical center of U.S. population [TIME, Oct. 8] might have saved the wear & tear on their seagoing sextants by consulting a member of the local Boy Scout troop...
...atomic proving grounds in Nevada, a giant electronic counting machine with an amplified beat ticked off the seconds. The first atomic military combat maneuvers in the U.S. were to start with an atomic blast. Anesthetized dogs, sheep and rats were spotted at proper intervals across Yucca Flat. Specially briefed troop detachments, including one unit of the Sixth Army band, stood by to take their part in the demonstration...
Producer Lantz, whose stable of Universal International cartoon characters includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...
...valleys and screen themselves behind ridgelines. They have proved their versatility. For months they have been used as flying ambulances, as aerial telephone-wire layers, for command tours of the front, for quick shipments of emergency supplies and weapons. Emboldened, marines expect to try them out in night troop movements, working closer to enemy guns than they have...
...recent conferences, however, the French have objected to German equality in the organization of command and also to the size of the force. The idea of one-man leadership was also questioned. So a compromise on the Pleven and Petersburg plans was made, cutting the total troop allotment to 175,000. The 50-year pact was accepted with slight modification. According to the agreement at the last Atlantic Pact conference, Germans will command at operational levels, but they will not receive appointment to the General Staff. At least the Allies have agreed upon the structure and size of German rearmament...