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OF THE WEEK

^[[Very informative article, inside on C.O. of 51st F. J. Wing]]

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>CLARENCE MANION'S dismissal last week last week as chairman of the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations is stirring up quite a storm and Congress. quite a storm and Congress. Mr. Mannion's backers said President Eisenhower fired him for supporting the Bricker amendment that would curb President's treaty powers. While Mr. Eisenhower was fighting the amendment in Congress, Mr. Manion—a persuasive orator—was stumping the country in its support. Senator John W. Bricker, Ohio Republican, and several of his backers are bitter over the President's action.

Some of Mr. Manion's critics, however, suggest that there might be other reasons for his dismissal.  His commission, required by law to report March 1 on duplication and waste in federal-State activities, is just getting a good start on its ambitious study, has asked for another year.

Mr. Manion, 57, was dean of Notre Dame's law school 11 years until he resigned in 1952 because of the pressure of his many other activities-private law practice, lecturing, writing (which he still carries on). He is a conservative Democrat, sought that party's nomination for U. S. Senator from Indiana in 1938. But he supported Mr. Eisenhower for President.

>T. COLEMAN ANDREWS, after a year's experience in running the Internal Revenue Service, is shaping up big changes to get full payment of income taxes. He finds that six out of every 10 people whop demand tax refunds make mistakes in their own favor, many by design.

Biggest change, if Congress approves, is to send her on a "tax academy" to train revenue agents. The idea is to build up a force of about 16,000 agents—double the present number—and make it practically impossible for either an individual or a business concern to short-change the tax tills. Agents now have to be accountants. Under the academy system they will also get inside-out knowledge of business and industrial practices and corporate finance. The academy, under the plan Mr. Andrews put before Congress, is not to be run by the Government for fear it would turn into a political empire. Instead, a university is to be hired under contract to teach the agents. turn into a political empire. Instead, a university is to be hired under contract to teach the agents.

To Mr. Andrews, and accountant and tax expert from Richmond, Va., a halt to cheating is a good business proposition that will return $30 to $40 for every $1 invested. The academy, including salaries of agents in training, is to cost less than of agents in training, is to cost less than

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[[image - black and white photo of President Dwight Eisenhower smiling in a golf cap and holding a golf club]]

>DWIGHT EISENHOWER, off to the golfing wars again at the first scent of spring in Washington's air, is once more being subjected to a question from his critics: Does the President spend too much time away from the White House?

One thing that seems to prompt the question is that many of his trips are spectacular. The latest, for example, is a flight of nearly 2500 miles, to Palm Springs, a luxurious resort in the California desert. The President's first order of business there: tuning up his golf game with the master professional, Ben Hogan. The five day trip, mixing play with the constant burden of presidential work, began less than a week after a flying jaunt to Georgia for quail hunting.

Tabulation of Mr. Eisenhower's activities indicates he may become the most-traveled President in U.S. history. In 13 months in office, the President has spent one day in four away from the White House, traveled some 40,000 miles. Vacation time approaches nine weeks—but parts of his vacations are spent working. And example was his Christmas stay at Augusta, Ga., where he got in several days of golf but also put in long hours at his desk shaping most of the legislative program now before Congress. 

He likes Augusta because people they let him come and go without fuss. Shouting, milling crowds, such as met him at Palm Springs, rouse his temper. He prefers to relax without fanfare.

$2.5 million a year. Salaries of the extra 8,000 agents would be less than 50 million. But revenues now getting away through cheating and mistakes are estimated at 1.5 to 2 billion.

>GEN. OTTO P. WEYLAND, commander of U. S. Far East Air Forces, turned up last week as key man in speeding aid to French airmen in Indochina. He made a quick flight to Indochina, then, wartime dispatch, set up a twice-daily "air lift" from Philippine bases to supply them. A dozen of his B-26 light bombers winged off to Indochina, with more to follow.

"Opie" Weyland is a man of action, as the late Gen. George S Patton and mini another officer found. General Weyland's 84th Fighter Wing teamed with Patton's tanks in smashing across France. Patton relied on the plains to guard exposed flanks. Then, sizing up his aerial help, he called General Weyland "the best damn general in the Air Corps."

General Weyland, a drawling Texan of 52, has been an air officer more than 30 years and has become an expert in tactical operations supporting ground actions. His Far Eastern experience covered almost all the Korean war, gave him practical experience in ways of using jet planes for close support. With that experience General Weyland is to become head of Tactical Air Command—the close-support units—around April 1. The jet lessons of Korea are translating into everyday practice.

>DAVE BECK, one of the most powerful of U. S. labor union leaders, looked last week like a man starting to build himself up as a political figure. Mr. Beck heads the Teamsters Union, biggest in the United States with more than 1.3 million members.

He wrote all members of the Senate urging them not to confirm Albert C. Beeson to the National Labor Relations Board. Then he swung hard at the Eisenhower Administration, accusing him of fostering economic recession with "hard money."

If Mr. Beck moves into politics, he's likely to be a hard man to handle. Unions are finding him that way now, with his refusal to sign a "no-raiding" agreement. Mr. Beck worked up to union power by organizing truck drivers in the Pacific Northwest, took over the whole union, worked up to union power by organizing truck drivers in the Pacific Northwest, took over the whole union,
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U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 26, 1954