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...most important Cabinet post set off a puzzled reaching for reference books to find out who Dean Rusk is. To the intimate few who had seen Dean Rusk in action at the War Department or State Department during a decade of solid Government service, the news brought a fraternal glow of delight. "A terrific appointment," said one State Department official. "When I heard about it, I was really overjoyed." The late John Foster Dulles was a longtime Rusk admirer. So was Rusk's old boss at State, Secretary Dean Acheson; an aide reported that Acheson "couldn...
...pleasant things include some stylishly medieval Hanya Holm processions and dances, a gleaming Great Hall investiture of knights, some scattered Lerner lyrics and Loewe songs. But Camelot falls short of sophisticated glitter and shorter of romantic glow...
...dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second. Electronic "eyes and ears," called scanners, spring into action the instant a phone is taken off the hook, activating a photographic memory brain that contains more than 2,000,000 bits of information...
...these stories, it is Gary's reliance on sharply observed everyday truths that makes the unremarkable glow remarkably. Here, as in his novels, nothing seems to be made up and everything seems worth hearing about...
While the public demonstrations and frenzied bills have been ineffective, they have caused sparks bright enough to catch federal executive departments in their glow. Attorney General William P. Roger's telegram to Governor Davis warning that he would "use the full power of my office" against further obstruction to the court order, has been blatantly ignored. While a word from President Eisenhower himself might have added moral conviction to the stand taken by the Supreme Court, the President has repeated the pattern he followed in Little Rock: a reluctance to act firmly and quickly. Since he has left the question...