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After almost five months in Britain, Cinemactress Judy Garland arrived in Manhattan chubbier by several pounds. Said she: "Right now I'm overdoing this pleasingly plump business. But I don't care. I never felt better in my life. Special dieting to knock off the poundage in a hurry for a picture is really murder. That's what was wrong with me early this year when I had a nervous breakdown. And for that reason I certainly sympathize with people like Mario Lanza. This time I'm going to take diet and reducing much slower...
...Morrison statement continued: "In Britain we set great store by ... freedom from arbitrary arrest . . . British citizens are not removed from their homes, they are not deported, they are not sent to labor camps. If there is a knock at the door in the early morning, it will probably be only the milkman...
Actually, the exaggeration of the U.N. claim might prove a face-saving gimmick for the Reds. They could knock down the straw man of the "new demand," settle for a truce at the battle line and still make a claim of sorts that it was the U.N. which backed down...
...reserve of men with six months of U.M.T. training, the Army figures, would knock 1,000 hours off the 2,500 to 3,000 hours it takes to make a division ready for combat infantry duty (6,000 for airborne). After basic, the U.M.T. graduates would be organized into reserve units, would get more and specialized training. Called back, they could spring to active duty 40 to 60% combat ready...
...technique, he said, and was to knock, then pose as a salesman if he found people in the apartments he entered. He told police he had restricted his activity to between a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset, since he knew that daytime breaking and entering was only a misdemeanor, whereas in the night it was a felony...