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...things considered, the lot of New York City Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy has been tough and not particularly happy. An up-from-the-ranks cop with the personality of a blunt instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24,000 men, many of them good, some of them not, most of them as contentious as only a New Yorker -and a uniformed one at that-can be. Stubborn, straight as a pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride...
Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin seized the chance to press for his blunt resolution calling for Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's ouster, and for the U.N.'s exit from the Congo within a month. He was defeated before he started, but plowed doggedly on. Brandishing a magazine showing Hammarskjold and Katanga's Belgium-backed Moise Tshombe together in the same photo (taken as Hammarskjold led the first U.N. troops into Katanga last August), Zorin suggested that it proved that Dag was "allied" with "a Belgian puppet"; this brought weary grins from everyone at the horseshoe table, including Hammarskjold...
...Tokyo, conservative opposition mounted against the choice of brainy but blunt Edwin O. Reischauer, a Japanese-born Harvard professor with a Japanese wife. Japan's Ambassador to the U.S., Koichiro Asakai, summoned Japanese correspondents in Washington, asked them such leading questions as "Do you believe we should accept an ambassador who is not a full and true American?" Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots. After MacArthur invited...
Last week, just a month after he replaced John (What's My Line?) Daly as American Broadcasting Co. vice president in charge of news, James C. Hagerty, 51, served notice that he will bring to his new job the same blunt and outspoken qualities that marked his eight years as press secretary to Dwight Eisenhower. In a speech before an aluminum industry convention in Oberlin, Ohio, Jim Hagerty reported ample room for improvement in TV news coverage-including ABC's. Said he: "Too much emphasis has been placed on well-modulated voices and nice-looking faces. These voices...
JAMES ROBERT BLUNT...