Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that a reconnaissance wing would be deactivated in early November. Item: Secretary Wilson ordered severe cutbacks in Air Force payments to major contractors-meaning that the contractors will probably have to slow down delivery schedules. Item: the Defense Department directed "an immediate, continuing and sharp curtailment" in defense-contract overtime...
...forward line will again be led by Captain Jim Shue at center, Tom Bernheim and Robin Magowan at left and right insides, and John Mudd and Ken McIntosh at the left and right wing positions...
...first House football games of the year, Adams defeated Lowell 19-0, while flu-ridden Winthrop forfeited to Dunster. In the Adams-Lowell game, Adams capitalized on four fumbles by the Bellboys to score on a single-wing attack...
...wing for the Divinity School library and a dormitory for married and unmarried students. "It is only now," Horton said, "after we have established our basic faculty, that we are thinking about new buildings." He estimated that each of these buildings would cost $1 million...
Reischauer estimates that construction of the new wing will begin "in early or mid-winter" and that the new building will be ready for occupancy by next September...