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Died. Brigadier General Lacey Van Buren Murrow, 62, Air Force flyer and eldest brother of the late Edward R. Murrow, a troop-carrier specialist in World War II and Korea, who retired in 1953 to a variety of highway-and railroad-consultant jobs; by his own hand (shotgun); in Baltimore...
Only a computer could master his tremendous achievements during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, when the number of active Army divisions all but doubled, air combat groups almost tripled, and U.S. troop strength overseas rose from 192,000 to a million-the first of 8,000,000. Marshall had commanded a company in the Philippines and won commendations for coolness, and later for tactical brilliance in maneuvers. His equally cool competence in staff work became his great asset...
...possibly both. Twenty-four hours later in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council called an urgent meeting for this week to discuss the growing tensions. Girding for more trouble, Israel planted mines along its bristling border with Jordan, swept the bleak desert with searchlights, beefed up troop patrols and traded sporadic fire with Jordanian border police...
...lost 560 planes to date (427 over the north, 133 over the south), more than its worldwide losses in wartime 1942. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently ordered 280 new fighters at a cost of $700 million, and is pressing ahead with a program that will have increased U.S. troop-and-supply airlift capability by 1,000% between 1961 and 1971. The military buildup announced by the President 16 months ago has boosted armed-forces strength by a net of more than half a million men (present total: 3,228,377), affecting every aspect of logistics...
...rotate to become trees. Shadows from the chandelier give depth and subtlety to this classically simple (though simply unclassical) design. The costumes possess the same flexibility through simplicity. This was especially valuable for the chameron chorus which, throughout the opera, moves in and out of the role of a troop of witches. The blocking and choreography, however, seemed too plain and somewhat stiff, with the exception of an inspired milling, circling witches' dance early in the third...