Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impatiently, the Senate Appropriations Committee summoned Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who had originally asked for only enough money to fill out the present 55-group force. Under congressional prodding, he had produced a makeshift, economy-sized 66-group program. It would provide ten of the extra groups by taking 300 old B-29s out of storage, and modernizing them...
Forrestal was forced to admit that the Joint Chiefs of Staff considered the 66-group program "inadequate as a military matter." The Senators, suspicious of a force taken out of mothballs, gave it short shrift, decided to take matters in their own hands...
...Package. The House had already voted overwhelmingly for the 70-group program; the Senate seemed certain to follow. What was Congress buying? Basically, a modern air force by 1952. It would be built of planes developed since the war and available, to replace an air force of World War II planes. The present 55-group Air Force is organized as 13 heavy bomber groups, 24 fighter groups, three light-bomber groups, eight troop-carrier groups, seven miscellaneous groups including reconnaissance, mapping and weather,* plus 17 separate squadrons. The new force would add eight heavy bomber groups, one fighter, two light...
...most active members in the Club's history was Leonard Bernstein '39, protege of Serge Koussevitzky and well-known conductor and composer, who headed the program committee and managed to perform at all but one of the regular meetings of the Club in the year 1936-37 and played two works, including one of his own compositions, at the annual concert that year...
...Chamber Orchestra will continue the policy of presenting lesser known older works, when it performs the Bach Triple Concerto in A-Minor for flute, violin, and piano, and Mozart's Divertimento in D. There is no record of performance for either of these compositions. Also sched- uled on the program are the Handel Oboe Concerto in B Flat and the first performance of Van Slyck's Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings. The orchestra will be under the direction of Van Slyck and the soloists include: Uni Springing, violin; flutist, Lois Schaefer, a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony; Wade Fite...