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...slavish imitator of Russian methods. Last week he received a group of Soviet artists, loudly applauded (with the proper gradations of respect) both a Stalin Cantata and a tone poem, The Song of Mao Tse-tung. Mao has said: "Comrade Kao Kang is a consistently correct leader." With this buildup, Kao, 50, is already a member of the Chinese Communist Party's 1) Central Committee, 2) Military Council, 3) People's Government. Last week he moved into Peking to take over the State Planning Committee and thus establish himself high in Red China's inner circle...
...Buildup. In France to investigate Washington reports of "slow progress, bad conditions and bottlenecks," General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff, found his crews living in damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
...around Manhattan for the past 17 years, mostly in burlesque and quick-folding musical comedies and nightclubs ("I wasn't any Danny Thomas, but I was doing all right"). Last week his Red Buttons Show (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV) went on the air with little advance buildup, no sponsor and few prospects...
...which it had done nothing to prepare), wrote his own introduction to it. He distributed only a limited edition (35 copies) to newsmen and let them hunt for the details of the wicked international oil cartel they had heard so much about. But for all of Sparkman's buildup, the document turned out to be little but ancient history, nearly all of it available in college economics books. Items...
...stretchout of the original three-year defense program would amount to a cut of between a quarter and a third in original goals. Many of the armaments now scheduled would still be made, but for export to overseas customers rather than for Britain's own defense buildup. "Armaments," he explained, "are, in these uneasy days, bestsellers...