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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news conference Ike said he would not reply to McCarthy's attack, that he would not engage in personal quarrels. What effect would a McCarthyite third party have on the Republican Party? Said Ike: "I have no crystal ball." He turned deadly serious and thumped the desk for emphasis as he continued: "If people want to split off ... that will have to be their business . . . The great mass of the people of the U.S. want intelligent, and what I would call a group of progressive moderates handling their business, and that is exactly what I am working...
...Chidlaw's desk are three phones, colored red, white and black, for direct lines to his units, SAC headquarters and the Pentagon. His command is one of the Bell System's biggest customers (phone bill: some $22 million last year). In one recent test an air general at the Colorado headquarters picked up a hot phone to call Pentagon Command Post. In exactly three seconds came the reply from Washington: "Pentagon Command Post." "This is a communications check," the general said. "Please disregard." Canada headquarters answered in 5 seconds, Newfoundland in 10, Alaska in 15. (For some pictures...
Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre was in touch with our stringer correspondent in Norway, who was, in turn, establishing contact with a Norwegian whaling fleet for a future Medicine story. Across Laguerre's desk came other messages from Finland, where our stringer correspondent had been instructed to watch visiting Soviet Minister Anastas Mikoyan, a likely news figure in the near future. Incoming research from Sweden was transmitted to New York for this week's cover story on Ernest Hemingway (see BOOKS...
...Mene, Mene, Tekel . . ." But Knowland's move came as no surprise to at least one Senator: Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. No sooner had Knowland sat down than Johnson pulled from his desk drawer a prepared reply. The words McCarthy had used in describing the Watkins committee, said Johnson, would be "much more fittingly inscribed on the wall of a men's room." Bill Knowland flushed red and scowled furiously...
...like this. Beginning last week Boston's bird watchers could get a bulletin on what to look for simply by dialing Kenmore 6-4050. Mrs. Ruth P. Emery, co-editor of Records of New England Birds, asked the telephone company to install an answering machine beside her desk. A recording of the current bulletin, previously made by her, goes over the wire when a call comes in. A tape recorder takes down incoming information...