Dave
This is a mystery to me. Usually questions like this kick off some long stored partially forgotten memories, but this doesn't.
The only reference to a condition A I can think of in 14256 is the copper mirror test, no breakthrough I think it said. 
I don't understand the reference to eutectic at all in your question, this MIL spec in any revision was only ever about flux types,  (unlike QQS 571 which paralleled the MIL on fluxes but also dealt with solder alloys).
I think you need to give us  more context if you can.

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Mike 

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Hi team - hey need some grey grey beard help. I am trying to find out what the following wording means: "Type A (Eutectic 157)" in the old MIL-F-14256 specification. I can't find a copy of MIL-F-14256 to look up this old nomenclature (I can get my hands on Revisions C-F). I am betting I need the initial specification release to find the secret decoder ring.

TIA

Dave Hillman
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