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...after he replaced John (What's My Line?) Daly as American Broadcasting Co. vice president in charge of news, James C. Hagerty, 51, served notice that he will bring to his new job the same blunt and outspoken qualities that marked his eight years as press secretary to Dwight Eisenhower. In a speech before an aluminum industry convention in Oberlin, Ohio, Jim Hagerty reported ample room for improvement in TV news coverage-including ABC's. Said he: "Too much emphasis has been placed on well-modulated voices and nice-looking faces. These voices and faces all too often...
...When they couldn't sell cars, housing sold pretty well. And when they couldn't sell housing, auto sales were good. Now things have changed." Thus Detroit FHA Director Dwight Hamborsky last week gloomily described what is happening to housing-when both autos and houses are selling poorly. The change was sketched more precisely by Dr. George Cline Smith, vice president and chief economist of the F. W. Dodge Corp., addressing the Joint Economic Committee. "During the postwar years," said Smith, "housing has tended to behave in a contra-cyclical manner. That is, it has done well...
Uses of Patronage. Doing it like Jack, in essence, meant working 16 hours a day in the exercise of every power that the presidency carries with it. It meant taking permissible executive action that Dwight Eisenhower thought unnecessary, e.g., increasing food allotments to distressed areas, or promising to use "the moral authority or position of influence of the presidency" in school integration disputes. It meant using press conferences and well-publicized messages to Congress, or sending Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg on a whirlwind tour of depressed areas to create a climate of public opinion in favor of the legislation Kennedy...
...question that faces Jack Kennedy, as it faced Dwight Eisenhower before him, is how to build a satisfactory deterrent. Air Force partisans argue that what is necessary is a counterforce. This would require not only protection for people and industry at home, but a nuclear delivery system (planes, missiles, submarines) capable of wiping out not only the enemy's military establishment but civilian centers as well. The more missiles an enemy builds, the more missiles a counterforce would call for. Thus the judgment of what is adequate is based on a relationship between the estimated Communist missiles...
...swarm of Harvard professors who have joined the lemminglike migration to the Kennedy Administration happily noted a quid pro quo: Phillip E. Areeda, a White House legal adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, departed Washington to join the faculty of Harvard Law School...