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...after Congress voted to make Alaska the 49th state, TIME also made a decision: open an Alaska bureau. Onto the masthead this week goes the new listing, ANCHORAGE, 18th TIME bureau in North America. To report Alaska's "stir and throb that reaches far beyond the cities, into the tundra, across the forbidding mountains and glaciers into the valleys" (TIME, June 9), Bill Smith. 28, a spring-legged, outdoor-loving correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau, moved up to Anchorage. From his base in Alaska's busiest city (pop. 35,000), Bachelor Smith will roam the new state...
Persons rounded up 22 high-ranking Republicans and Democrats from Congress by 2:30. The President greeted them individually as they filed into his office and took chairs in a semicircle around his desk. "Gentlemen," said Ike, "I have asked you to come down here as I do on all matters of great urgency involving international developments." Then, in general terms, he outlined the Lebanon and Iraq situations. "I have discussed this with my people here and in the National Security Council," he added, "but I must emphasize that no decision has been made. I want to give...
...Symbol. The next job was to make his decision known to the nation. Next morning, as U.S. marines were landing on the beaches of Lebanon, Ike authorized Press Secretary James Hagerty to tell newsmen, followed this up with a message to Congress and a filmed address that was telecast and broadcast across the country. "It is recognized that the step now being taken may have serious consequences," he told Congress bluntly. "I have, however, come to the considered and sober conclusion that despite the risks involved this action is required to support the principles of justice and international law upon...
...Congress wreaked a lot of costly mischief when, out of solicitude for the individual armed services, it flawed 1947's defense unification act with service-independence safeguards that fostered disunity and snarled Defense Department lines of authority. Last week, with rumblings overseas sharply reminding the lawmakers of the nation's need for military efficiency, the Senate took a long step toward undoing the mischief. Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson called to the floor the President's defense reorganization bill (TIME, April 14), and the Senate unanimously passed it, heavily rephrased but scarcely damaged in substance...
ABROAD new U.S. foreign-investment program is taking form in Washington. Even as fresh opposition to the foreign aid and reciprocal trade programs showed itself in Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the State Department was busy last week on a program that every businessman and Congressman could support. The aims: 1) get other countries to shoulder more of the development burden now borne by U.S. foreign aid; 2) shift from giveaway aid programs to revolving loans; 3) encourage private investment and sound fiscal and monetary policies in countries that now dissipate U.S. help by bad housekeeping...