Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD, by John le Carré. This grim, exciting cold-war thriller about a genuine professional in the international spying game is a good antidote for mystery fans fed up with excessively flashy Fleming...
...Dominican Republic has embarrassed the U.S. for decades. After the U.S.-encouraged assassination of Dictator Trujillo in 1961, the U.S. in 1962 ardently supported Author Juan Bosch, an exile for 24 years, in presidential elections. He won, then allowed Dominican Communists to organize openly and proved to be inept. Fed up, the Dominican army threw Bosch out, but the U.S.-with a fixed policy in favor of constitutional government even when it is bad-broke off relations with the junta. Later it got promises that there would be free elections, and relations were restored. But U.S. Ambassador John Bartlow Martin...
Those were tough, frustrating times for State Department careerists in Washington, and in 1953 Mann got "fed up with all the McCarthy stuff," asked for an overseas assignment, went to Athens as embassy counselor. But even if he had wanted to, Mann could not shake his reputation as an expert on Latin America. A Communist-riddled government, with President Jacobo Arbenz as the front man, had taken over Guatemala. The State Department began its strategy-to isolate the country under the Rio Treaty. But at the same time the Central Intelligence Agency plunged ahead with a plot to back...
...radio grew, it was CBS's energetic young president who fed it more new ideas than anyone else. Paley introduced the Columbia Workshop, which broadcast the early works of Thornton Wilder and W. H. Auden. And as World War II began, he initiated the practice of fracturing news programs into brief reports from scattered capitals. After the war-in which he served as colonel in charge of psychological warfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower-he made one of the strongest moves in broadcasting history when he took control of programming away from advertising agencies and outside packagers. From then...
...possible demands for big wage hikes in upcoming labor talks in major industries. Should inflation appear again despite this warning, it will be the job of the Federal Reserve Board to combat it by limiting the money supply-and that possibility last week caused a clash between Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and his archcritic, Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee...