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...father. His grandfather was turned off a small farm by the government because he once hired a man to help him get in the crops; the grandfather subsequently starved to death. His uncle was an army doctor who was taken prisoner by the Germans, was put through a three-year "quarantine camp" on his return to Russia because he had seen the outside world, and after that constantly was held under suspicion...
...unprejudiced ignorance" about education. But in reality, he has already gone far with his plans for the academy's curriculum. On the technical side, cadets will start off with two months of indoctrination in everything from military drill to servicing aircraft. After that will come a three-year aircraft observer's course (355 hours on the ground, 171 in the air), which will qualify cadets as full-fledged navigators and bombardiers. In their last year, the cadets will finally start training as pilots. But for General Harmon, all this is only a part of what the academy will...
Furthermore, charged William McKenna. top Government investigator of the housing mess, staff members in the Washington office got eight television sets and 14 wristwatches as gifts from local contractors. But FHA officials waited until the three-year statute of limitations expired before reporting this to the Justice Department. Of 163 cases that the FBI sent to the FHA over a two-year period, he said, only nine were brought out and investigated...
Died. Robert N. (for Newton) Denham, 68, onetime (1947-50) general counsel of the NLRB, whose ouster in 1950 climaxed a running three-year battle between Republican Denham and President Truman over the interpretation and jurisdiction of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...Nashville, two TV and three radio stations signed three-year contracts with the city's newspapers agreeing to pay for the space used to list daily programs...