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...slowly but not gracefully. Members were in a vagrant holiday mood; by midweek so many had left Washington that the leaders were barely able to call up a quorum. As matters stood before the Christmas recess, the 81st would not be able to adjourn until the day before the 82nd Congress convened...
...Staff J. Lawton Collins. Born at Fort Monroe, Va. 55 years ago, Ridgway planned the first large-scale U.S. parachute-troop operation in Sicily (1943). Through no fault of his, that one was a snafu, but he kept on tirelessly pushing the airborne doctrine, jumped with his troops (the 82nd Airborne Division) in Normandy, later became commander of an airborne corps...
...Whipped through a bill to extend federal rent control 90 days beyond Dec. 31, thus keeping the lid on rents until the 82nd Congress can get around to making up its mind about...
...hard, shocking fact they faced was that the U.S. was out of combat-ready reserve strength. Only the 82nd Airborne Division was still left at home and at the ready. Behind them in the Army's production line was an assortment of National Guard (four divisions and spare parts) and marine outfits still in training, and the newly formed Regular 4th Division which would not be set until late spring. Equally as serious, U.S. industry had not been ordered into even a creeping mobilization. "We are moving," Mobilization Overseer Stuart Symington testified last week before the Senate Banking Committee...
...When the new 82nd Congress convenes Jan. 3, the Senate and House will be back in their old chambers now undergoing a $5,000,000 beauty treatment...