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Much of the new serenity appears to stem from the leadership of Dwight H. Perkins, whom Bok asked to become HIID's director in April--only a few days after Harberger had declined the position, and only a few weeks after Perkins resigned from the chairmanship of the search committee that recommended Harberger in the first place...
Highways. In 1956 Congress launched what President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed to be "the greatest public works program in history": the interstate highway system. Now in its silver anniversary year, the 42,500-mi. network is only 94% finished, but 8,000 miles of pavement are so badly worn that they must be rebuilt. Though the U.S. Government has picked up 90% of the $79 billion tab for interstate construction so far, it has given the states almost no money for maintenance and state legislatures have been slow to provide funds to keep up the highways. To make matters worse, Congress...
DIED. James Hagerty, 71, able, candid press secretary and influential adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower between 1953 and 1961, who initiated such now routine news practices as regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings between the press and the President and the admission of newsreel and television cameras to presidential press conferences; of a heart attack; in Bronxville, N.Y. A former political reporter and press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Hagerty joined ABC after leaving the White House, serving as a vice president until a stroke in 1975 forced him to retire...
...Dwight Evans drove in two runs with a towering home run over the Fenway Park's high left held screen to lead the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the Texas Rangers yesterday...
...Major General Omar Bradley arrived at the Tunisian front to serve as field adviser to his onetime West Point classmate Dwight Eisenhower. Bradley at 50 was a career officer who had never seen a day of action on the battlefield...