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Actually, the President's program contained little that had not been suggested before by Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower-and it offered nothing that seemed likely to lure the Russians from previous stands against disarmament inspections. Despite Kennedy's promise to resume discussions of any one step toward disarmament whenever agreement seemed in sight, the U.S. plan is basically a step-by-step approach requiring international inspection to ensure that each stage has been carried...
...presidency, General Motors became the greatest cornucopia of war materiel in human history. From its production lines flowed a quarter of the tanks and armored cars, nearly half of the machine guns and carbines, three-quarters of the diesel engines used by the U.S. armed forces during the war. Dwight Eisenhower first encountered Wilson while serving as the Army's Chief of Staff in the postwar years; in 1952, after Ike was elected Pres ident, Wilson was his choice for the job of Secretary of Defense...
Textile Tycoon Bernard Goldfine, 70, whose gift-giving ways forced the resignation of former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams as top assistant to Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, managed to land three more Government employees in hot water. Scarcely had the Boston industrialist been ensconced in Danbury, Conn., federal prison to begin a year-and-a-day stretch for tax evasion, when three of its staff-a janitor, a machinist and a cook-were suspended for helping him keep up illicit correspondence with friends on the outside. As for the gregarious Goldfine, he landed in "segregation," pending investigation of the alleged...
...quotations that draw on sources as diverse as Variety, Lingerie Merchandising, and TIME (probably the most frequently quoted magazine), along with "pungent, lively remarks" by 14,000 modern notables from Winston Churchill to Mickey Spillane. The old edition brushed off goof as "a ridiculous, stupid person." Now. in amplification, Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as complaining that someone "made a goof." Elizabeth Taylor broadens sick by speaking of "a room smelling rather of sick." Ethel Merman says, "Two shows a day drain a girl," and Willie Mays warns, "Hit too many homers and people start puffing...
Died. Charles Erwin Wilson, 71, ex-president of General Motors, who as Dwight Eisenhower's first Secretary of Defense was regularly undone by his unpolitical addiction to utter candor; of a heart attack; at his Norwood, La., plantation (see THE NATION...