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"Honorary Inspector." For five years Nelson Rockefeller was the dominant figure in U.S. policy in Latin America, conceived the idea of exporting American technical know-how to underdeveloped countries, the germ of what later became Harry Truman's Point Four Program. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of State in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thanks a Million | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

After Stevenson's announcement came the long-planned Democratic powwow, sponsored by the national committee. Everybody was optimistic and harmonious, especially at the $100-a-plate dinner. But two mild family quarrels were noted: ¶ Facing an old and troublesome problem, he national committee worked out a face-saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taking This Country to Hell | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

¶The Association of Military Surgeons gave the 1955 Gorgas Medal* for distinguished service to Colonel Victor A. Byrnes of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service. Ophthalmologist Byrnes has just reported that even an old-fashioned A-bomb set off at night can cause blindness in unprotected eyes 40 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

¶ Louisiana's Democratic Governor Robert Kennon, casting about for candidates more to his liking than-Adlai Stevenson (whom he refused to support in 1952), named Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Anderson, a Texas Democrat, as possibilities. Kennon placed Lausche "in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

The Democratic split became plainer when attention focused on Texas' tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Governor Allan Shivers. Less than three weeks earlier, Stephen Mitchell, Butler's predecessor as Democratic national chairman, had said that Shivers and certain other Democrats who supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952-specifically South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Two by Two | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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