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While the U.S. satellites and the Red Sputnik whirled in space, an argument ricocheted through the U.S. defense and scientific communities. Who ought to command the U.S.'s space offensive-civilians or the military? Last week, in a special message to Congress, the President gave his answer. Its gist: civilians...
Musical Chairs? Last week the President published the terms of a precedent-making answer to the 170-year-old problem of presidential disability that he has worked out with Vice President Nixon. The gist: in the event of disability, 1) the President would, if he were able, call in the Vice President to take over as Acting President, to perform all presidential acts and fulfill all presidential duties; 2) the Vice President would, if the President were not able, and "after such consultation as seems to him appropriate," decide whether to declare the President unable and take over as Acting...
President Eisenhower's NATO speech this week was drafted to offer a code within which NATO can live-and at the same time to present a challenge that NATO must meet if it hopes to live. Its gist...
...into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
...nearly an hour last week Pope Pius XII discoursed on the subject of clothes to 70 delegates of Rome's first International Congress of High Fashion. His gist: Adam's and Eve's fig leaves set a sound fashion for fallen man. In the speech, the Pope displayed remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have...