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...reduce their troops in Germany from 77,-ooo to 64.000 in the course of the next year, would like to cut them still more if their NATO allies will agree. More drastically, the Second Tactical Air Force in Germany will be cut in half. Both cuts will be somewhat offset, but not overcome, by supplying the remaining forces with atomic weapons. Aware that all this might appear to Europeans as an insular retreat, Sandys acknowledged that "the frontiers of the free world . . . must be firmly defended on the ground...
...FARE BOOST of 5% will go into effect on all North Atlantic flights beginning May 1, if U.S. and West European governments approve. Transatlantic lines want fare increase to offset salary hikes, higher fuel costs due to Suez crisis...
...bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
What many veterans do not know is that they are already paying at least the equivalent of 5% interest. Most moneylenders who accept VA loans do so only at considerable discount in order to offset the 4½% rate. Builders pass on this hidden charge to veterans by inflating the cost of the house. And by preventing the veteran from building earlier, the VA's low rate has actually cost him extra money. Industry sources, for example, expect house prices to average about 3% higher this spring than last...
...about the same as last year. Henry speculated that "perhaps people have more money," or that the ten dollar fee discourages multiple scholarship applications. The number of candidates from prep schools was about constant, he added, with the slight drop of applications from Exeter and Andover from last year offset by gains from other schools...