Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Goldfine was investigated again on the same charge, Adams got him an appointment to meet Chairman Howrey. Once there, Goldfine waved the Adams name like a magic sledge hammer. "Please get Sherman Adams on the line for me," he ordered, loud enough for nearby FTC staffers to hear. "Sherm, I'm over at the FTC," he said on the telephone. "I was well received over here." ¶ The next year, Adams asked White House Special Counsel Gerald Morgan to check with Securities and Exchange...
Those who failed to foresee anything twinkly in such summer-budget grist could always retire to the beach with their radios. But they would also have to remember that, when replacement time comes in TV, fall is not far behind. If they listened very keenly, they could even now hear a dominant, ominous sound of autumn-the greatest thunder of hoofbeats ever to rumble across the land...
beauty industry, which has grown into a giant by preaching with burning evange lism a message every woman wants to hear: "You, too, can be beautiful." "There are no ugly women," say the ads for Manhattan's Diedre line, "only lazy ones." Says Steve Mayham of the Toilet Goods Association: "This is an industry of ideas and imagination, and what we are selling is hope." The industry encourages hope by sur rounding itself with the most enticing come-ons since Eve described the apple...
Showing the bluntness that he rarely lets the public see or hear, Dwight Eisenhower let fire last week with the toughest language he has aimed at Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME...
...which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram). Over "hot mikes" (both microphones always switched on, so that each of us could hear the other's breathing), he asked simply: "Ready...