Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week energetic Trevor Gardner resigned his Air Force job. Some Washington sophisticates were quick to recall that the Senate Investigations Subcommittee had recently questioned him about a possible "conflict of interests" violation. (Before going to Washington. Gardner was president of California's Hycon Manufacturing Co., an electronics concern that has worked on guided missiles.) Others suggested that Gardner was miffed because Defense Secretary Wilson, who recently decided to appoint a "czar" for the whole U.S. guided-missile program, had passed him over for the job. Gardner himself offered the straightforward explanation that he was leaving because...
...press associations do an even-handed job of straight reporting, but in the rush to meet deadlines with fastbreaking news, they give only bits and pieces of the whole story. Inevitably, they put the accent on spot news of conflict. Without any further effort to see the integration problem whole, so do most Southern papers. Says Editor Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution, which does one of the South's best jobs: "Most newspapers seem to have forgotten that there is another side to the story, that Texas is going ahead with integration, that Arkansas is quiet, that North...
...history of recent totalitarianism affords a limited example of this situation, the attitude seems at times overly optimistic, and the plot structure sometimes strains to justify it. Had Tolkien converted the work into a tragedy, he might well have made his impact even greater. Yet the portrayal of the conflict's complexities, especially the use of evil to a good end, is without parallel in a work of this scope...
Specifically, Ladejinsky was kicked out for having broken ICA's conflict-of-interest regulations by investing in a Formosan glassmaking company that had received some $600,000 in U.S. Government financing. ICA explained that Ladejinsky, while on an official mission to Formosa, gave a $3,000 check to a Chinese friend, who cashed it on the black market and bought stock in the glassmaking firm. Said ICA: "At the official rate of exchange, this check at that time would have purchaised 60 shares of stock. As a result of the higher rate of exchange obtained by this illegal transaction...
...Fenner expects slow progress in the future, due to a conflict with an overlapping drive by the Armenian General Benevolent Union. Both Fenner and Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, last night expressed hope that the Benevolent Union will contribute from $15,000 to $25,000 toward the chair...