National Affairs: AIR: Rat Race Changed

The Army architects who planned the Air Corps's Randolph Field near San Antonio made one mistake. They forgot about sidewalks, and people there have to walk in the paved streets or on the brown, famished grass. Otherwise the post is one of the Army's finest. On the east and west sides are two wide, grassed flying fields. Between, in precisely patterned octagons and circles, are separate rows of shops, barracks, officers' and noncoms' homes, all converging on the white, stone-towered administration building Where the post commandant rules.

Last week Randolph Field lost...

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