Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightening general rules of personal conduct. It was far more than that. The meeting took place in the summer of 1956-the presidential election year-and Adams warned his senior staffers that some evidently improper requests had come to the White House from congressional sources. "We are all fair game," he announced. Adams feared that the Democrats might try to trap the White House by planting a scandal during the campaign. The watchword was handed out: prudence...
...weekly White House conference with G.O.P. Senate leaders one morning last week, Senate G.O.P. Policy Committee Chairman Styles Bridges asked permission to read a letter from an irate citizen. The letter, delivered with oratorical flourishes, was a scathing indictment of the U.S. exhibit at the Brussels Fair as a notable U.S. propaganda failure in the cold war. Leaving the White House, Bridges told reporters that the President was "very irritated" at what he had heard. And next day, on the President's urgent order, purse-lipped George V. Allen, head of the U.S. Information Agency and as such, keeper...
...Abstractions. Cause of the excitement, it turned out later, was Chicago-born Hayes Robertson, 53, onetime Census Bureau clerk and now a lawyer in Chicago Heights, Ill., where he also is board chairman of the Brummer Seal Co. (engine gaskets). In May, he and Mrs. Robertson took in the fair as the high spot of a European tour. "Everybody I talked to was interested in seeing the two largest exhibits, the Russian and ours," said Robertson. "But as I walked through the American exhibit, I didn't see America anywhere." What Robertson saw and did not like broke down...
Wanted: A Point. Last week, as George Allen loped around the Brussels Fair's 470 foot-wearying acres, comparing the U.S. exhibit to those of other nations, European visitors seemed far more approving of the U.S. exhibit than Americans. (One unplanned highlight: the U.S. exhibit offered large numbers of comfortable free chairs for weary visitors.) Americans were in unanimous agreement that the U.S. Pavilion building, designed by Architect Edward Stone (TIME, Mar. 13), was a delight-even Letter Writer Robertson praised...
Said New York Republican Kenneth Keating in the House: "Any legislation must provide for due process, guarantee a full and fair hearing for those who may be denied passports . . . but also seek to achieve a realistic balance between the demands of national security and the individual liberties of our citizens-a balance the court in recent years has often ignored...