Word: bell
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Besides Stevenson and Landis, another intellectual "working with" Kennedy in the new administration will be David E. Bell, the new director of the Budget Bureau. Although, like Landis, Bell is no stranger to Washington, he was not an old acquaintance of Kennedy but was suggested to the resident-elect by a former Truman aide, Clark Clifford, who introduced the two men only 24 hours before the appointment was announced...
...Bell's familiarity with Washington will stand him in good stead at the Budget Bureau where he will be on the one hand buried in a mass of detailed figures and on the other subjected to strong political pressures contesting the apportioning of the federal funds which he supervises...
...Bell's experience in the field of economics is wide, and much of it was gained at Harvard in work for the Graduate School of Public Administration. For the past seven years the GSPA has sponsored an economic advisory group for underdeveloped countries...
...Bell came to Harvard in the late 1930's to get his Master's degree, and taught here briefly before going to Washington to serve as an analyst for the Budget Bureau in the war years. This job caused his first thesis interruption; a trip to Pakistan for the GSPA brought the second; and his recent appointment marks the third...
While phone use continues to-grow, automatic long-distance dialing is coming along to cut costs even further. In addition the company is developing new uses for its products, e.g., Data Phone, which enables business machines to exchange information over its regular phone circuits. And from Bell Telephone Laboratories, the most advanced research facility in the world, comes an outpouring of new ideas. Some of the latest: pocket radio-telephones that will connect with any place in the world; communication satellites to instantly relay messages around the globe...