Word: directs
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Secretary of Defense. "We tried to make it very clear," said Georgia's Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard B. Russell, "that the Secretary of Defense is the supreme officer in the Department." He will have broader and more direct control over the man in uniform, bypassing the service secretaries in operational matters. The old requirement that the services must be "separately administered," now reads "separately organized," i.e., the Defense Secretary cannot abolish services, but the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force are no longer in the chain of operational command. The Defense Secretary now has explicit authority...
...decision: a 1956 ruling that, in effect, nullified state antisubversive laws on the grounds that federal legislation had pre-empted the field. Under the House measure, a federal law would not supersede a state law in the same area unless 1) Congress so specified, or 2) there was a "direct and specific conflict." Opponents warned that the bill would lead to endless jurisdictional tangles between federal and state laws in such fields as interstate commerce regulation, even civil rights. Senate prospects: very...
...Chicago Restaurant Association, a federation purportedly formed in the interest of restaurateurs, had direct ties with hoodlum unions...
...Soviet government denounced the U.S. landing in Lebanon as an "open act of aggression ... a direct act of war and open piracy," demanded that the U.S. withdraw its forces immediately. Russia cannot remain "indifferent," the Kremlin warned...
Conducting the Friday night performance will be Pierre Monteux, while Charles Munch will direct the orchestra in the principal concerts on Saturday and Sunday...