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...Rebuilt Cabinet. No President in history has given more attention to efficient organization and delegation of work in the executive branch. Under the Eisenhower reorganization, all major decisions funnel up to the President through a whole chart of special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration...
...Heard Willie Yelling." It was too late. As the climbers negotiated an ice-filled "funnel," the snow mass whispered 700 ft. above them. Tony Woodfield glanced up and saw a mass of powdery snow break downward. "I yelled 'Avalanche!' and dug my ax into the ice and hung on." The avalanche thundered down. The rope tying Woodfield to the others tightened painfully, then broke, leaving him safe while his friends were swept 1,000 ft. down the mountain. Peter Smith, 13, of Paoli, Pa., managed to leap to one side, and was saved. "When it passed, I unwound...
...take form atop Haut Lieu, Ronchamp villagers threw up their hands in horror. The Walls, instead of rising straight upwards, sloped inward or outward like sets for a surrealist movie. The ceiling sagged like a tent ceiling. The main church tower, looking like an ocean liner's funnel, and two lesser towers served only as light wells for chapels within...
...hurt 493 people and killed 19, caused a $10 million loss. The whirlwind ripped surfaces off the highways, wrapped a big electric refrigerator around a tree stump, tossed a wrecked pickup truck onto the second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn't look long. I lit out for the cellar...
...most vociferous opponents of the tax are investors and stockbrokers whose job it is to funnel equity capital into the growth of U.S. industry. Why, they ask, should the U.S. discourage the accumulation of capital that is needed to finance new industries? Even under the Labor government, Britain never enacted such a tax. So many U.S. investors are frozen into their holdings by the tax that the flow of equity capital is slowing to a trickle...