Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality & Prospects: Razor-sharp, affable, cool, sensible, he has been popular in the Pentagon, at the White House, with both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, and with the press corps, which has found him straightforward and helpful. Long in the ranks of progressive Republicans, he has been considered somewhat too "liberal" by some of the Taft-wing leaders of the G.O.P. in Nebraska and in Washington. But most knowing observers who have watched him operate agree with the evaluation of G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall that he is "a damn smart politician," and perhaps the most politically promising member...
Carmen (Andy Griffith; Capitol). The slow-talking star of No Time for Sergeants does one of his wide-eyed explanations, this time of grand opera. The singers, he drawls, are high-priced and have "high roofs to their mouths." As for Carmen, she's "looking at this 'Escamilla' like she was stuck on him, and you can see why ". . . because he's a rale spowart. He lives about as far up town...
...Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the well-publicized hypnotic journey into previous incarnations to search for Bridey Murphy. This Bridey declares she lives outside Rome in 200 A.D., and is an usherette at the Colosseum. And she has a hot tip: put a bundle on Ben Hur in the fifth...
...Capitol Hill's battle over export controls was not over; it is just beginning. After three months of investigations, much of it in secret session, Arkansas' Democrat John L. McClellan and his Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are readying a detailed report on the whole program of trade in strategic goods. Key finding of the McClellan committee: after 1954, when the Eisenhower Administration decontrolled some 200 items on the strategic list under heavy pressure from Britain and other allies, the Russians got strategic products and processes that saved them both research, manpower and years of development time...
...national figure in the conduct of foreign affairs. In 1955, when the Democrats took over Congress, Eisenhower urged George to pass up the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee and to become, instead, Foreign Relations Chairman. George agreed, became the strong voice of foreign-policy bipartisanship on Capitol Hill (TIME. April 25, 1955). When Ike asked for a free hand in dealing with the Formosa area crisis, George's support produced an overwhelming bipartisan vote of confidence. His early, public espousal of a Big Four meeting was a key factor in the President's decision to attend...