Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri's Symington, Harry Truman's onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary, who set up shop as chief critic of Administration defense policy, failed to score a direct hit in many bombing runs on and off the Senate floor. Feeling the balance-the-budget heat, he 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...
Banned by the court from discussion of the trial, Turkey's press last week dutifully made no direct reference to it. But in the newsmagazine Akis, which bitterly opposes the heavy-handed regime of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, there appeared, under the title "Ugly American," a feature story illustrated by a picture of career Diplomat Fletcher Warren. After deploring U.S. ambassadors who play footie with dictators, Akis recalled that Warren was U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela in the days of Dictator Perez Jimenez, concluded with the laconic statement that he is now Ambassador to Turkey...
Cowles will leave direct supervision to Editor-Publisher William J. Dorvillier, 51, a Massachusetts-born journalist, who in 1953 started a weekly newsletter in San Juan for businessmen interested in the island. The tabloid Star will be printed six days a week on the presses of El Impartial, San Juan's second Spanish daily, will be aimed more at English-speaking residents than tourists. Hoped-for circulation: 15,000 in eight months...
...have an old-fashioned ring. The story is laid along the Basque seacoast of the igth century. There is a duel, a mutiny, piracy, the slave trade, an escape from prison, changed identities, a kidnaoing, even buried treasure. The hi?h adventure is made believable by the style-dry, direct, understated. But the excitement is only incidental to the story's main theme, which is Shanti's lifelong pursuit of truth and his stoic acceptance of whatever roadblocks fate may put in his path...
...housing, the report called for the establishment of biracial committees in cities with large nonwhite populations: "A large proportion of colored Americans are living in overcrowded slums." It urged the President to direct federal agencies to shape their policies to ensure equal opportunity, and recommended that builders using federal loans be required to abide by antidiscrimination laws. In the field of education, the commission suggested that it serve as a clearing house for information about procedures used in school desegregation, and called for an annual school census "by race" and a federal advisory service to help local school officials plan...