Word: committeemen
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...What the committeemen think about the U.S. brand will finally be incorporated in their report. It may surprise U.S. radiomen who confidently believe that the U.S. leads the world. Justin Miller, president of the U.S. National Association of Broadcasters, has dismissed British and all foreign radio as "dull, lifeless dishwater . . . and great doses of government propaganda...
...work, the staff does get interesting assignments. During Commencement week, for example, College officials annually begin wondering about weather. And, Brooks reports, it is touch and go. One year, seeing an ominously heavy storm building up over Jamaica Plain, he examined the prevailing wind direction and advised Class Committeemen to move the senior spread indoors. When the wind changed, bringing the rain to Blue Hill instead of Cambridge, Brooks expected complaints. He got compliments instead; another storm that he could not see had moved in from the north and soaked the Yard, making his prediction "correct...
...Nobel Committeemen were not the first Scandinavians to recognize Ralph Bunche's talents as a peacemaker. Sent to Palestine in 1948 as assistant to U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, Bunche had quickly won the count's friendship and admiration. After Bernadotte's assassination by Israeli terrorists in September 1948, Bunche carried on Bernadotte's job. At his headquarters on the Aegean Island of Rhodes the American charmed, cajoled and sometimes bullied testy, mistrustful Arab and Israeli peace negotiators. Bunche worked tirelessly 16 to 20 hours a day, lighting one cigarette off another and drinking...
...around the President's neck. Last week, for the first time since the Korean war, Johnson and Acheson marched up Capitol Hill together to argue for the $4 billion foreign-arms program. They would get the money, all right. But for more than three hours, behind closed doors, committeemen blistered the Administration's failure to prepare for Korea. This time Acheson was not the only one to draw the committee's anger. Johnson, who had long done his best to undercut Acheson in private, though he publicly denied it, was beginning to catch his share...
...House cited 56 persons for contempt of Congress. All of them had refused to answer questions put to them by the Un-American Activities Committee in the past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...