Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great defect of Hynek's proposal is that it is politically impracticable. There is already too much confusion of authority in Washington; the Secretary of Science's domain would be hopelessly intertwined with almost every other department, particularly Defense and Health, Education and Welfare...
...show in advance with CBS. and in turn CBS decided retroactively that it had lent Murrow the network's right to editorialize. The network lists him only as one of its hired hands, but Murrow is something of a power in himself, with his own generously financed domain and the strong personal loyalty of key CBS news staffers. His unique status stems from 1) his close friendship with Board Chairman William S. Paley, with whom he deals directly, 2) his onetime role as a major architect of its news staff and policy, and 3) the hard fact that...
Only a prefix away from the international union's presidency, Vice President Hoffa, 44, controls a mighty voting force which he has assembled through the years by tirelessly reaching out from his Detroit headquarters into every accessible Teamster domain, tirelessly wooing business agents and local leaders, establishing a machine which owes allegiance only to Hoffa. He maintained it by virtue of his famed reputation as a tough negotiator of union contracts and a self-styled protector of the ranks. While conspiring with hoods, he has won the confidence of businessmen and has even assumed a stance of labor statesmanship...
...Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill. Third editorial, a scornful attack on parking meters, was written by a local poet and sometime newsman named Spud Johnson, who runs a private, one-page domain called "The Horse Fly" (subtitle: "Smallest & Most Inadequate Newspaper Ever Published...
...Middle East. Air Force elementary and high schools will dismiss 119 native teachers whose purpose was to reduce the isolation of American youngsters living abroad. Commented Le Monde of Paris: "It seems a bit astonishing that the United States, which admits the necessity of extending into the cultural domain cooperation among allied countries in NATO, suppresses one of the rare means its citizens enjoy for getting to know the people among whom they find themselves." ¶ The Veterans Administration reported that the Korean G.I. bill, just five years old last week, has so far given nearly...