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Until recently, said the experts, the Air Force has put its faith in slingshot weapons, unwilling to sacrifice the high performance of its aircraft for heavier fire power. The jets caught them napping. With thick skins, fewer moving parts, simple fuel systems and high speed, the new aircraft usually shake off machine-gun fire like a goose hit by dust shot. Finally, report the gunmen, the economy-minded reign of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stifled all but the most important research in aircraft weapons. At that point the Air Force and Ordnance stacked their chips on rockets...
Some sort of shake-up in Italy's government seemed inevitable as a result of the recent elections in which the Reds held their own, and right-wing parties made substantial gains (TIME, June 11). The big question: Could Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi trim his sails to the new winds merely by reshuffling his cabinet, or would his coalition government collapse after 5½ years of rule? Last week Treasury Minister Giuseppe Pella resigned because of opposition from both extreme right and extreme left to his anti-inflationary budget plan. When Pella refused to reconsider, all the other...
Cautiously the delegates adopted (over some opposition) a new 3,000-word declaration of principles. It spelled out what many democratic Socialists had long practiced, but it had never before been put so bluntly, nor had a Socialist resolution ever been so carefully designed to shake Europe's Socialists out of their doctrinaire dreams. Instead of the old tenets ("public ownership of the means of production," etc.) the new Socialist manifesto referred to the "planning of production ... in the interests of the people as a whole . . . Socialist planning does not presuppose public ownership of all the means of production...
...Bill Veeck knows that free beer is no substitute for good baseball. He plans to shake up the club, "from manager to batboy," talks of building up his pitching staff (he has only one first-string pitcher, Ned Garver) by dusting off famed old (fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters...
...Roosevelt to complain of the still-secret concessions made to Russia at Yalta: "... I went to the White House . . . with my ears back and my teeth skinned, to have a fight about what had been done. When the President reached up that fine, firm, strong hand of his to shake hands with me, what I found in my hands was a very loose bag of bones...