Word: basic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower was not worried about whether labor and industry approved his decision. He had a far more basic interest in mind, and he had expressed it through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "The situation is not collective bargaining, which is the instrument open to a free people in major economic disputes. This seems to be getting down more and more to a trial of strength between two groups with the American public the greatest loser. I might add the President has no intention of letting the American people be the greatest loser...
...military" (Johnson's ARPA). Coordination between the two domains is supposedly achieved by the Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, the real purpose of which seems to be to provide a roost for amiable, ineffectual William M. Holaday, who was head of the abolished guided missiles office. But that basic split-up is only the beginning: assorted segments of the U.S. space effort belong to the Air Force, Army and Navy. Crisscrossing all the civilian and military groups is a misbegotten organizational web that at last count included 42 committees...
...those who had any notions that the U.S., as a result of President Eisenhower's talks with Nikita Khrushchev, might be backing away from any of the basic principles that have guided its foreign policy, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon last week had a stern message to deliver about at least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense...
...much tougher for Republicans to achieve the image of the party best able to assure prosperity. Many voters still associate the G.O.P. with depression, think of the Democrats as looking out for the little fellow and his purse problems. Although President Eisenhower has made the sound dollar-basic to true prosperity -the keystone of his domestic policy, Gallup showed these results on the question of which party is most interested in holding prices down...
...true issues. In a deeper sense, the central problem was whether or not Harvard as an institution should be committed to a particular religion, or indeed to religion at all. When one considers that Harvard was originally founded to prepare men for the Christian ministry, it became clear how basic this problem was, not only for the present, but also in terms of the traditions and continuity of the College...