Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BUDGET DIRECTOR MAURICE STANS: "Why is it that some business leaders join taxpayers' organizations to bring pressure on the Government to cut expenses, and yet support industry groups seeking more Government subsidies? Why is it that some labor leaders press hard for wage increases to keep up with the cost of living, and then urge a massive program of legislative action which, if adopted, would lead to more deficit spending, higher taxes, and inflation...
...from his superiors, Istanbul's police boss summoned the city's top comedians, songwriters, cabaret and theater owners into his office to lay down the law. Citing a police regulation forbidding public utterances "prejudicial to public morale and to the security and policy of the government," the director announced that any theater or nightclub that permits jokes about the high cost of Menderes would be closed for three months...
...important post, Lopez Mateos reached outside the Ruiz Cortines ranks; Pascual Gutierrez Roldan, 55, replaced Antonio J. Bermudez as director of the government oil company (Pemex). A conservative businessman who ran up handsome profits as director general of the country's largest steel producer, Altos Hornos, he will no doubt try to cut down waste and featherbedding at Pemex...
Stashing away one racket for another, rangy Negro Tennistar Althea Gibson began work on her first Hollywood role: a slave who ladles Southern comfort to her mistress when the boys ride off in old pro Director John Ford's Civil Warmup, The Horse Soldiers...
...last Explorer has fallen silent, and the current series of U.S.-made satellites is spinning to its end. Last week Roy W. Johnson, director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), announced plans for the U.S.'s next series. The new "Discoverer" series will include Sputnik-sized reconnaissance satellites revolving in north-south orbits that cross both poles...