Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operates. When he expressed this wish, presidential aides produced a copy of TIME'S Jan. 9 issue, with a portrait of White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams on the cover, and opened it to our report on the White House office and its staff, illustrated with a chart by R. M. Chapin Jr. This, Ike's aides told their distinguished guest, was the latest and most accurate picture available of the White House staff organization...
...Kubitschek," said John L. Steele, our White House correspondent, "sat on a couch in Dwight Eisenhower's office and studied Chapin's chart. After that, in a skull session which may serve him well in setting up his own administration in Brazil, he followed the chart, actually walking from office to office to trace the course that a piece of executive business would take to the President's desk...
...governmental departments and agencies with their divergent interests. But if each staff member reported only to the President, the result would be merely the added complication of warring liaison men. In today's White House organization, the best roads to the President lead through Sherman Adams (see chart). The Limited Power. Adams has immense power, to the extent that New York Timesman James Reston, studying the state of the nation during the period of the President's recuperation, recently wrote: "There is a growing feeling here that Mr. Adams is now exercising more power than...
Lawrence Played Ball. Armed with her innumerable check lists, the modern teacher begins reading instruction not so much with books and pencils as with salamanders, household pets, trips to the zoo and the park. Chicago schools, for instance, have "storytelling" and "tell-and-do" times. Many cities use "experience charts." One San Francisco first grade has a pupilrun "newspaper" which features such headlines as YESTERDAY LAWRENCE PLAYED BALL. The whole idea is to give the children a common experience and then let them dictate a story about it to the teacher. The story appears in the newspaper...
...mere spear-carrying extras; they include some of the key men in Government. Staff channels are not so rigid as to prevent any staffer from going straight to the President. Some, by the nature of their duties, have greater need than others for direct access (see dotted lines on chart). But it is the foolish staff member, or, indeed, the Cabinet officer, who fails to keep Adams fully informed about discussions with President Eisenhower...