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...achieve the force that it regards as minimum for the nation, the Air Force must first break the "balanced forces" concept which rigidly rules the J.C.S. Balanced forces is a cozy compromise of unification, whereby the three services agree to split what money there is into equal portions. If equal shares happen to make sense in any one year, that is only a happy accident; its merit is peace among the services, not efficiency in arming against a war. Now, says the Air Force, the time has come to do away with...
Radio stock went soaring from $2.50 to $549 a share, was split and resplit. Insiders made killings in radio pools, but Sarnoff had a reputation for keeping aloof from such shenanigans. At their height, he sailed to Europe to help Owen Young set up the Young Plan for German reparations...
...Minnesota's fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, not yet a Senator, who insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that...
...Earlier Socialist internationals: the First International launched by Marx and Engels in London in 1864, which was split by the Russian anarchist Bakunin a few years later; the Second ("Social Democratic") International, founded by Karl Kautsky, George Plekhanov and others in Paris in 1889, which fell apart in World War I; the Third International (Comintern), set up by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and officially dissolved by Stalin in 1943; the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky's splinter Communist party, which he set up in Mexico in 1938 after Stalin drove him out of Russia...
Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...