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...week's end, Kennedy still did not have his Army Secretary, but the recruiting drive had filled up nearly 50 other top jobs beneath Cabinet level, left another 50 to 100 to go before Inauguration Day. Among the happier choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Administration: Parade of Talent | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...table hopping was livelier, and the members seemed happier (the club, founded in 1955 with the motto "Out but Happy," has changed its slogan to "In and Very Happy"). And through it all ran the insistent obbligato of job seekers on the make ("I hear there's an opening in Frank's office . . . What else ya got . . . ? When can we start . . . ? How about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Ring in the New | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...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't be happier" about Kennedy's decision. Said Kennedy, explaining why he picked Rusk: ''He seemed to me to be the best man available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ADMINISTRATION: The Eagle Has Two Claws | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SIX FOR THE KENNEDY CABINET | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Fascist in logic and conviction as well as in sentiment." He thinks that Italians were lots jollier under the Duce than they are under democracy: "Even with two or three cars, Italians are dissatisfied today. Morale is low. In the past they had nothing, but they were happier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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