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...instead of 'beep, beep.' I mentioned this to President Eisenhower. My idea got across, because he did send such a message up with our last moon. Next time I hope it will play music." ¶ House Majority Leader John McCormack insisted on turning over his chairmanship of the exotic new Committee on Space and Astronautics to Louisiana Democrat Overton Brooks. Reason: the move took Brooks, whose abilities are lightly regarded, out of the line of succession to Georgia's aging (75) Carl Vinson as chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. Succeeding Brooks as Vinson...
...wait meekly for his dismissal. Kishi cashed in on Japan's economic boom by sweeping last year's elections, and promptly edged Minister of State Kono out of the Cabinet to the party board chairmanship. Then last fall Kishi ran into heavy public and parliamentary opposition to his bill for beefing up Japan's long-feared police (TIME, Nov. 17). Though members of his own party joined in the criticism of the Premier, Kono urged him to go ahead and ram his police bill through. As the din in the Diet grew louder, Kishi saw a sweet...
These are doubtful contentions. A charities drive must, to some degree, be operated on a hierarchial basis and the Council already offers this. Its members serve as a cadre which can organize solicitors in each House. A central co-chairmanship of two students with the willingness to work and the knack of running a financial campaign may be more effective than a committee of well-meaning activities representatives who would run such a charities drive as a strictly secondary interest. Successful collection requires more than men of good will; it demands a coordinated administration. This year's Drive chairmen...
...from the White House steps declared: "I think we are willing to give them a damned fair proposition. I don't think they can rightly ask for more than that." Bridges' proposition: the Ikemen would get the assistant minority leader's post, plus the meaningless chairmanship of the Senate Republicans' Committee on Committees...
...stooped and paunchy but still very recognizable figure, the man with the white goatee and the riverboat gambler's eyes stepped onto the speaker's platform at Moscow's Central Committee meeting. Ex-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, still a Central Committee member though banished to the chairmanship of an obscure regional economic council in the north Caucasus, spoke his cringing words on the fourth day of debate...