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...palatial U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro last week, the spacious, air-conditioned ambassador's office was being readied for a new tenant. Earnest, dynamic William D. Pawley, who resigned as ambassador last month, had checked out-private airplane and all. To fill the $25,000-a-year job, President Truman had picked 53-year-old Career Diplomat Herschel Vespasian Johnson...
Assisting and advising the administrator will be: 1) a $17,500-a-year deputy; 2) five members of the National Advisory Council on Fiscal Problems*; 3) a new Public Advisory Board of twelve U.S. citizens appointed by the President; and 4) a special representative abroad who would interpret ECA to the beneficiaries...
S.472 would help equalize educational opportunities in all the states by unequal expenditures of $300 million in federal funds. New York, which spends the most on education, would get only $5 for every schoolkid; Mississippi, which spends the least, would get $28.50. Objective: a $50-a-year minimum outlay for the education of every U.S. child. Such controversial issues as segregation and aid to parochial schools were bypassed by a provision allowing each state "home rule" on use of federal funds...
...morning last week, Manhattan Adman Emerson Foote chewed gum and chain-smoked Lucky Strikes while he waited impatiently for the reporters to crowd into his press conference. Then he quietly dropped his bombshell. He announced that high-powered Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. had resigned its $12,000,000-a-year account as advertising agent for The American Tobacco...
...agency voluntarily given up such a fat account (one of the twelve largest in the U.S.). Foote's reasons were the same, and just as general, as those given a week before by George Washington Hill Jr. when he quit as American Tobacco's $230,000-a-year vice president in charge of advertising (TIME, March 29). Like Hill, Foote said he had resigned because of "general disagreement over policies...