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The Periscope
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possibly...Because of the cutback in ground forces, many college ROTC graduates now may never have to serve their full two years of active duty in the Army...Only trained technicians will be able to read the atomic-radiation-measuring badges to be issued to ground troops. Reason: panic might result if individual soldiers attempted to read their own badges.

Red Trouble Shooter
You can look on Moscow's naming of A. E. Bogomolov as Ambassador to Rome as the opening of an all-out Russian effort to exploit Italy's current political turmoil. A star diplomat and intriguer, Bogomolov is an old hand at stepping up Red influence in suvh situations.Note: the Italian Communist Party now claims a card-carrying membership of 2,570,000-more than it had in 1948, when it made a potent bid for power.

Always a Witness
White House visitors have noticed recently that Eisenhower, unlike his two predecessors, almost never grants a completely private audience. Congressmen visiting Ike are provided with an escort, who stays during the entire conversation.

President on Leave
The Prague government is very touchy about reports circulating in Vienna and elsewhere that an attemp was made to assassinate Czech President Zapotocky last Nov. 7.Four Czech policemen are believed to have been killed and Zapotocky either wounded or injured in the melee that followed. One thing Prague doesn't deny: that Zapotocky has been away from his desk on "sick leave" a good part of the time since November.

Sign of Weakness
The State Department publicly ridiculed the charges that the U.S. was involved in a plot to overthrow the Red-tinged regime in Guatemala.But, privately, State officials are not discounting the possibility of a violent upheaval there. President Arbenz's wild charges are viewed as evidence that Arbenz, in trouble at home, is belaboring foreign scapegoats in an effort to bolster his own position.

Book Notes
Whodunit writer Mickey Spillane will tour the country this summer with a circus-trampoline act-not to gather book material but because he likes the trampoline, a springy canvas on which he performs acrobatics...Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee will publish his memoirs, "As it Happened",simultaneously in England and the U.S. this spring. [[/column 1]]

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Look for Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing, an F-86 unit now in the Far East, to become the Air Force's first Negro general. His father, now retired, was the Army's first and only Negro general. ^[[left-facing arrow]]

Delayed Bad News
The French Government has been quietly withholdind new of enemy gains in Indo-China-until it is able to report some offsetting improvement in the French position. For instance, a strong Vietminh drive on Seno went unmentioned for five days, when the French finally reported they had checked it. News of last weel's probing attacks on Dienbienphu, a vital French stronghold, was similarly held up.

Entertainment Lines
Depsite talk of an "unknown" playing the role, watch for James Stewart to portray Charles Lindbergh in the movie version of "The Spirit of St. Louis"...Katharine Hepburn will return to moviemaking this spring in a British version of Shaw's "The Millionairess"...Danny Kaye will star in the screen version of Cole Porter's 1934 musical "Anything Goes." he will also play Maurice Chevalier when and if Columbia makes a movie biography of the French singer-comedian. Studio insiders expect trouble in getting an entry permit for Chevalier, who has been accused of both Nazi and Communist sympathies.

Television Tips
Watch for Hildegarde, the French-accented Milwaukee chanteuse, to become a regula TV performer. She has bought a package of old Gus Edwards material and is about to announce a weekly show...Merle Oberon will make a TV-film series, Women in Love, based upon famous love stories...Fred Allen's quiz show, Judge for Yourself, will be replaced by Ralph Edwards' Truth or Conswquences in May.

Where Are They Now?
On Jan. 16,1942, a Navy torpedo bomber from the carrier Enterprise crash-landed in the Pacific after running out of fuel. Thirty-four days later, after a fearful voyage recounted in the wartime best seller, "The Raft," its three crewmen were found, half-dead, by natives on Danger Island, 1,200 miles away. Today the pilot, Harold F. Dixon, is selling real estate in San Diego, Calif., where the gunner, Anthony J. Pastula, is a civilian employe at the Naval Air Station. The radioman, Gene Aldrich, who is now married to Pastula's sister, works for a Youngstown, Ohio, plastics manufacturer. [[/column 2]]

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