Word: achesonism
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...ceremonies (People Are Funny). The show's catchy title means nothing, though the haggis is a famed and gamy Scots dish cooked in a sheep's stomach. A recent panel of contestants looked very haggis when it uncovered the entire face of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and failed to identify...
...issue, TIME referred, in connection with Dean Acheson's speech at Detroit, to "the hand-wringers of his own party (including . . . State Department key man, George Kennan) who insist on the international summit conference even if held on propaganda-serving Soviet terms...
...Pundit Kennan has been criticized by Dean Acheson (his former boss) for being opposed to a strongly armed NATO and in favor of neutralization of Central Europe, but he should not have been included in the summit-at-the-Soviet-price group. TIME erred...
...have differed in the past, e.g., Reston was generally a defender of onetime Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Krock a critic. But Krock thought so highly of his younger colleague in 1953 that he moved aside as the Times's Washington bureau chief so that Reston could have the job, thereby thwarted the Washington Post and Times Herald's hopes of landing Scotty as editor. Their recent differences seem more pointed and more specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited...
...October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended the development of the U.S. hydrogen bomb. He convinced AECommissioner Gordon Dean, while heavy support piled in from Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Pentagon. After four agonizing months, on Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman announced that he had ordered work on the H-bomb begun. Lewis Strauss's key contributions as Dwight Eisenhower's AEC chairman: 1) pressing the role of private enterprise in atomic power, 2) fashioning...