Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times in the ensuing six years, the State Department internal loyalty board pondered in effect whether Service should be kept on or let go; six times Service was cleared. Then in December 1951 the Civil Service Commission Loyalty Review Board recommended that Service should be fired. "To say that his course of conduct does not raise a reasonable doubt as to Service's own loyalty would, we are forced to think, stretch the mantle of charity much too far." Acheson sacked Service, whereupon Service appealed all the way to the Supreme Court...
...same time the State Department's own internal regulations prescribed a procedure for clearance that, in some cases, gave the Secretary of State no power at all to act. Last week, by a vote of 8-0 (with Justice Clark not taking part*), the Supreme Court ruled in effect that the State Department's internal regulations took precedence over the congressional rider and thus over the national law. Specifically the court found that Secretary of State Dean Acheson had improperly dismissed Diplomat John Stewart Service, 47, even though Acheson had specifically taken his legal grounds from the "absolute...
...contains only a desk and two chairs. The invariable procedure: invite the client to discuss anything at will. This is somewhat like Freudian free association, but with differences on which Rogers lays great stress: no attempt to dredge for harrowing emotional experiences in childhood or to seek cause-and-effect relationships between past experiences and present difficulties...
...good taste, "but they had something more important-CHARACTER." As for the houses, they provided more comfort, light and air, and certainly had more vigor and imagination than the thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes of today. "The broken 'picturesque' exterior made the most of the effect of sunlight, shade and foliage. These are good houses to walk around, to view at different times of day and year...
...Made Mink. Manhattan's Collins & Aikman Corp. will soon put on sale a synthetic mink, which it claims looks like the real thing from a few feet away. Composed of Du Pont's Orion, Union Carbide's Dynel and other synthetics, the phony mink gets its effect by combining both long and short hairs to imitate real mink, will come in several shades. Joining the company's synthetic beaver ("Cloud No. 9") and sealskin ("Kissing Cousin"), a coat will cost less than...