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Problem No. 3 is that the three services, moving into this uneasy grey area, are also moving on to new bickering about the future of missions and budgets and careers. When the Navy starts serious groundwork and lobbywork on its projected 15 atomic carriers, the interservice roof may fall in. "There are going to be some investigations on missiles," one Air Force general sadly predicted, "that'll make the B-36 hearings seem like a powder-puff game...
...University has apparently received enough funds from the first three months of "The Program for Harvard College" to begin the actual groundwork for at least one new House in the spring, the CRIMSON has learned authoritatively. It is believed that the actual announcement will be made by the University sometime next month...
...foreign policy statement. Before him sat 1,500 members of the Automobile Manufacturers Association in town for the National Automobile Show (see BUSINESS). The Vice President had a twofold mission: 1) to answer the weeks of criticism of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and 2) to lay new groundwork for the strengthening of the Atlantic alliance and the whole free world...
...Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter, 61, World War I special assistant in the State Department, five-term (1943-53) Congressman (he chaired the congressional committee that laid the groundwork for the Marshall Plan...
Texas: Stevenson leads, but Democrats are angrily split among liberals, moderates and conservatives. Thanks to Vice President Nixon's groundwork, Texas-born Ike has come from far behind, now rates a strong chance...