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...silver C-141 Starlifter transport last week whistled to a stop at Rhein-Main airbase near Frankfurt. Out of it filed a 65-man U.S. Army unit, the advance party for one of the largest troop airlifts ever undertaken. Within the next two weeks, a total of 12,000 U.S. fighting men, including two brigades of the Army's 24th Infantry Division, will be flown from their U.S. stations to join the 220,000-man U.S. Seventh Army in West Germany. In addition, 96 droop-nosed F-4 fighter-bombers will jet from Stateside bases to West Germany...
...lead to sulfurous squabbles. The aid program seems destined to be squeezed down still further, and protectionists will again be seeking assistance for some domestic industries. There is also a resolution pending in the Senate that would demand congressional approval before the President commits U.S. forces overseas. On the troop issue, Kennedy reflects an executive rather than a legislative viewpoint, observing that such infringements on presidential powers get into "dangerous waters." But he would like to see the Senate at least express itself more freely on foreign affairs...
Scandinavian tourists troop off the ferry with light portable ladders to prop against the high stone wall. Sheep Island is a long way from Stockholm, the wind is bitter, and the wall is high. But to them the object is worth the search-a glimpse of Bergman and what Swedes euphemize as his latest "little home companion." If they are lucky, they can see a brilliant glint of strawberry blonde hair and the planed face with its saddle of freckles and wistful smile...
...holdings in the islands, manned by 41,000 Army, Air Force and Navy men. An establishment of such a size has inevitably at times caused frictions with the civilian population. Since the end of the Korean War, Washington has made sizable reductions in the size of the permanent U.S. troop commitment - but the friction continues...
...Brownie Troop. After his marriage to Pat, a Methodist, Nixon began to vary his habits of worship. In Washington, the Nixons generally attended whichever Protestant church was nearest their home. When they lived in the Spring Valley area, they went to Westmoreland Congregational Church. After they moved to Wesley Heights, their congregation became the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church. Not only was the church just a few blocks away, Pat once explained, but it also sponsored the local Brownie troop to which the Nixon daughters belonged...