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Mouth v. Brain. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower's chief of staff, forthwith called a press conference of his own. Growling that General Eisen hower would tolerate no insubordination, General Smith then spoke as one professional soldier practically never speaks of another: "[Patton's] mouth does not al ways carry out the functions of his brain. George acts on the theory that it is better to be damned than say nothing-that some publicity is better than none...
...Plans. C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, which had demanded a 30% wage increase and then authorized locals to take less, temporarily, petitioned NLRB for a strike vote in 96 plants of General Motors Corp. The Board forthwith scheduled the vote for Oct. 24. The strike, certain to be voted by U.A.W.'s membership, would take 325,000 workers off the job in the industry which is the spark plug of postwar prosperity...
When TWA gets its first commercial Constellations in a few weeks, it will start its commercial flights across the Atlantic forthwith. Jack Frye promised that TWA's new beauties could fly nonstop from New York to Paris in about 14 hours, little more than half the present flying time of Pan American Airways Corp. and American Export Airlines, Inc. Furthermore, said Mr. Frye unctuously, TWA will cut the present transatlantic fare of $572 substantially, set it at a "reasonable" figure...
...speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground...
...Forthwith the Bishop packed his saddlebags, got on his horse and headed for the frontier-traveling some 275,000 miles over wilderness trails in the southeast, often going hungry and sleeping on the ground...