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...Defense Department was under heavy congressional fire last week for handling its recruiting program with a pressagent's instead of a soldier's touch. To get volunteers, the services had spent $1,128,175 in the fiscal year 1951 for such unmilitary radio & TV shows as roller-derbies, The Shadow, and Ralph Flanagan's band. For 1952, the recruiters had signed up Singer Frankie Laine ($434,602), a weekly football game ($117,166), and a 15-minute weekly Bill Stern sportcast ($254,867). Just what, asked Vermont's Senator George Aiken, did all this outlay "have...
...converted indoor tennis court at Oyster Bay, N.Y. one night last week, the guests looked up at the big, curving cinema screen, swallowed hard and clutched for support as they seemed suddenly plunked down in the lead car of a plunging roller coaster. Next, they were surrounded by the cacophony of marchers and bands in the midst of a Fifth Avenue parade. Then they were transported to Chicago's Soldier Field at night, heard the rumbling applause swelling all around them as Douglas MacArthur's car swept into the arena under shifting beams of light...
Queens of America (Sat. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) adds women baseball players to the TV ranks of women roller skaters and women wrestlers. The Queens are a softball team decoratively turned out in shirts, shorts and knee-length stockings; their opponents bear such names as the Checashers, the Bluebirds and the Music Maids. The caliber of play is a good deal better than the camerawork and announcing...
...authors pay homage to such old institutions as the now extinct fence which drew freshmen with a "magic magnetism," recount the ban on lower class roller skating, and call the institution the "mother of colleges...
...repairs can go through a small seven-ton door in the inner wall. For a major overhaul the maintenance crew can open the two 110 ton doors at the West end or the two 60 ton ones at the East end. These slabs are pushed back and forth on roller tracks by a large crane hitched to the ceiling. The total shielding around the machine amounts to some 600 cubic yards of concrete and 34,000 pounds of structural steel...