Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of reading TIME cover stories, Miss Russell says she had never expected to be the subject of one herself. "It just didn't cross my mind," she explains. "You see, in Hollywood ... I never had the big publicity buildup. In the eyes of the studio, my work was limited. For years I played second leads, taking the man away from Jean Harlow- just long enough to give him back. When I asked for better publicity, they would say, 'There just isn't any story in you. Now if you were born on the wrong side...
More modestly the buildup began for the new Premier, the Cossack with the shady past and forbidding presence who stepped from Stalin's shadow into the role of No. 1. Nobody cried: "Stalin is dead, long live Malenkov!" Molotov, in his funeral oration, did not even mention Malenkov's name. Beria, in his single reference to Malenkov, identified him as "the talented pupil of Lenin and the faithful comrade-in-arms of Stalin...
...newspapers and radio orators bathed the country in praise of Stalin and his works, but the Chinese Reds handled Malenkov's succession with almost cold reserve, were slow to slip into anything resembling a real buildup of the new Kremlin boss. In a long panegyric to the late Stalin, Mao's only reference to Stalin's successor was: "We fully believe the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, headed by Comrade Malenkov, will definitely be able to follow Comrade Stalin's behest to drive forward . . ." First the party...
...presidential administration at the Commodore with a dry-run Cabinet meeting. Among other business, he read the current drafts of his inaugural address and his State of the Union message. All present were asked for comments and memos. One notable decision: concerned over the lag in NATO's buildup, Eisenhower ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen to make a quick, fact-finding trip through Europe within ten days after the inauguration. Another decision: his inaugural outfit, announced Eisenhower, would include no top hat or tail coat. Instead, he would wear: black Homburg...
...Although fiscal 1953-54 will be the peak year of spending in the nation's defense buildup, the budget asks Congress for substantially less new spending authority ($72.9 billion) than was requested in any of the last three years. Reason for this reduction: the tremendous carryover of spending authority for military equipment, granted by Congress in earlier years but not used because of the great gap between orders and delivery...