Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradually backed down from his charge that the Defense Department was dangerously starved by the Budget Bureau, shifted toward a new line in favor of re jiggered priorities (more ICBMs) within present spending. Turning his attention to the farm program, he failed to score with cloudy hints of Commodity Credit scandals, or help write a new party farm program. Half-time score: Symington is still the favorite of most Democratic pros (notably Missouri's own Harry Truman), is the only candidate with no "insuperable handicap," but cannot yet boast a single important legislative achievement to support his presidential pretensions...
...Government bonds, thus left Treasury unable to manage the $290 billion public debt effectively in today's high, changing money market (see BUSINESS). In a minor concession, a House-Senate conference boosted the 3.26% ceiling on popular E and H savings bonds to 4.25%, thus permitting Treasury to credit outstanding savings bonds with 3.75% interest retroactive to June...
...knows for sure which Soviet scientist, if any, should get most credit for the success of the Soviet space effort, but it has slowly become clear that Sedov is nearest to being official chief of the program. His full title is Chairman of the Interplanetary Communications Commission of the [Soviet] Academy of Sciences' Astronomical Council, and he has often been spokesman for Russian space scientists. In recognition of his apparent stature, this year's London meeting of the I.A.F. elected Sedov its president. Said a British delegate dryly: "We felt that the Soviets had done...
...unlikely sort of hero, a brownish-haired little (about 5 ft. 5 in.) Scot with a murderous temper, the boudoir morals of a tomcat, and a colossal ego. He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself. He fancied himself as a freedom-loving "citizen of the world," yet ended up drawing his sword for a despot. But John Paul Jones could certainly do one thing: he could fight a ship as have few men before or since-and Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R...
...same heroic mold as George Washington's bronze horse, and his problems, one would think, could hardly be more trying than shooing away the pigeons of circumstance-tax collectors, importunate beauties, photographers wanting to capture his grandeur in whisky ads. Yet Parmelee broods, and it is a credit to the author that readers are persuaded to take it seriously...