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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cabinet made up of committee chairmen. I have conferred with them. I think they will expedite action." (Columnist Doris Fleeson, who loves Democrats but has built up an immunity to Johnson's charm, asked if he had worked out a disability agreement with his second-in-command, Montana's Mike Mansfield.) Next day Johnson's estimate of his own importance almost seemed true, for it was he, not the Administration, who announced that the Defense Department would begin pouring some $450 million into military construction projects in surplus labor areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sense & Sensitivity | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Fellow. Lyndon Johnson has never ridden higher, and he should be a happy man. But he is not, and he may never be. He sits at his command-post desk in Office G14, Senate wing, U.S. Capitol, restless with energy, tumbling with talk. He flashes gold cuff links, fiddles with the gold band of a gold wristwatch, toys with a tiny gold pillbox, tinkers with a gold desk ornament. And he glances often at the green wall, where hangs Edmund Burke's framed warning about the vexations of leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sense & Sensitivity | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Strategic Air Command's 2,000 bombers; a SAC squadron of 20 B-47s can drop the explosive equivalent of several hundred million World War II heavy bombers; SAC wants $2.5 billion for more bases, bombers and tankers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Overkill | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Hangar C in the Snark compound, a bus disgorges a squad of Strategic Air Command trainees assigned to study the air-breathing missile. Another group runs a test on an 80-ft.-high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE RITE OF SPACE | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Gamal Abdel Nasser declared open war on King Saud last week-the man whom he has often wooed in the past, whose oil moneys have helped fuel Nasser's subversions, whose army only two years ago was nominally put under a joint command headed by an Egyptian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Father Ibrahim's Plot | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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