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...hands in Washington were astonished by the efficiency and dispatch with which the Administration was operating while the President was sick. Explained Vice President Nixon, the acting captain of the Eisenhower team: "The President has set up the Administration in such a way that it will continue its policies, which are well defined, during his temporary absence...
...effect the switch, which had, of course, to be accomplished in one week, the staff of our Chicago traffic department worked seven weeks on such preliminary steps as making new address plates for the independent wholesalers and changing dispatch schedules and routings on truck, rail and air lines. When switchover week came, our magazines were sent in 2,200 shipments to the wholesalers for distribution to some 100,000 newsstands. W. A. Rogers, president of S-M, which had never before handled weekly magazines, called the switch "miraculous." Said TIME'S traffic manager, W. A. Evans...
Kinks in the Eisenhower security program were quickly evident. Inexperienced and overzealous agency heads proved incapable of handling delicate matters of investigation and procedure. While many administrators enforced the Executive Order with fairness and dispatch, others tended to turn investigations, which should have taken on a quasi-judicial color, into grossly unfair proceedings which did little to insure loyalty while inconveniencing and often terrorizing loyal employees. Furthermore, the terms of the Executive Order were drawn too loosely--the Director of the National Zoo ran a security check on all his curators--and gave administrators only a vague standard of judgment...
After graduating from Harvard ('30), he worked as a reporter and adman for the New York Times and Syracuse Post-Standard, did public relations (forthe Panama Canal), ran the Casa Grande (Ariz.) weekly Dispatch for two years before joining the Navy, then sold it at war's end. With his own $20,000, a borrowed $55,000, and an option to buy the News in his pocket, Tom Robinson persuaded such well-heeled Carolinians as former Army Secretary Gordon Gray and Robert M. and James G. Hanes, operators of one of the state's biggest textile mills...
...eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could be arrogant enough to tell King Alfonso of Spain publicly to go back and put his uniform on right, so incredibly undiplomatic as to say at the death of his uncle, King Edward VII of England: "An outstanding political personality has suddenly disappeared from the European stage...