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...Scrap plans for a buildup to 133 combat wings by next July and substitute a goal of only no wings. Though Air Force brass would like to see most of this cut come out of the 28 tactical wings which the U.S. has promised to NATO, Air Secretary Harold Talbott passed the word that the U.S. NATO commitment must stand unchanged. The alternative: a major reduction in the planned size of the Strategic Air Command and U.S. air-defense forces...
...Eliminate some 64 supporting air units, e.g., transport, and 89 ground logistical units from the buildup program...
...draftees will probably be maintained through 1953. Then, barring drastic international crisis, draft quotas will drop to 19,000 per month during the first half of 1954. But beginning in July 1954, the number will jump to 45,000 a month. Reasons: 1) since the big buildup of 1951, the Army has faced a biennial wave of discharges, and the wave will hit next in the summer of 1954; 2) truce or no truce, the U.S. plans to keep the Army at its current strength...
...surrounding the book seemed justified. Dr. Kinsey knew, he said, of five other books trying to beat his to the bookstalls; one had been in type for months, with blanks to be filled in with Kinsey's figures as soon as they could be obtained. Besides, the suspenseful buildup was excellent publicity. The publishers (Philadelphia's W. B. Saunders Co.) were counting on a sure bestseller: they had ordered a first printing of 250,000 for the 842-page, $8 tome, were certain that the public was breathless to learn what Kinsey had discovered about the American Woman...
...That EDC is part of a "crash" buildup program to meet an emergency that no longer exists in so threatening a form. Those now unwilling to make the sac-rifi es demanded in EDC point out that the U.S. (despite its talk of no relaxation) is now cutting its arms budget and its foreign aid. General Gruenther, called home to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on becoming head of NATO, said: "I do not think war is ever going to come [in Europe]. We are going to stop it from starting...