Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen hours after flying back to Washington, the President was saying goodbye to another good-will ambassador, headed for Central America: his younger brother, Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University and an experienced hand in Latin American affairs...
...knew Goldfine so well that Adams was willing to vouch for him as "an upright and honest citizen, trustworthy and reliable." Whether Goldfine actually fits that description, whether he is the sort of businessman from whom public officials can accept gifts without having to return favors, remains the central issue in the Adams-Goldfine case despite distracting Goldfine pressagentry. Last week TIME reporters, conducting dozens of interviews and digging through musty court records throughout New England, reported on some of Goldfine's many visible business operations...
Genetics & Bomb Tests. A part of the public seems to think that the chief concern of genetics is the hereditary damage that may or may not be done by the radioactive fallout from nuclear bombs and bomb tests. Geneticists insist that this matter is not a central part of their science, but none of them takes the potential effects of fallout lightly. They have spent their working lives with experimental organisms deliberately deformed by radiation. They know how recessive damaged genes persist unnoticed for many generations, only to appear (and perhaps to kill or cripple) when two of them meet...
...Jersey, nine eastern rail lines, including the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, urged Governor Robert Meyner to postpone their $18.5 million tax bill for 1958 to ease their "insurmountable burdens...
...York Central's President Alfred Edward Perlman warned that the line was ready to cut off all commuter service into Manhattan, close the famed Grand Central Terminal and terminate all routes 43 railroad miles away at Harmon, N.Y. unless the state and its cities "help" the line overcome its overall $1,000,000-per-week passenger loss. If the Central should move out, New York City would lose its third biggest (after Consolidated Edison and New York Telephone Co.) taxpayer ($16 million last year). To keep it, the city last week followed one Perlman suggestion, started a study...