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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Effective Answers. Some of the solutions (e.g., step-up of missile research and development, development of antisubmarine warfare programs, steps toward dispersal of the Strategic Air Command) have already taken hold, Johnson wrote-not without an oblique reference to the fact that much of this action began only after the committee's inquiry started. But overall, the committee urged strict attention to the kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts...
Some day the committee hopes to get hold of the I.U.O.E.'s longtime big boss, International President William E. Maloney, who claims that he is too ill to testify. His name came up in last week's hearings when a Local No. 138 rebel testified that Maloney, presiding over a meeting at the union's international headquarters in Washington, looked on calmly as an elderly member was kicked in the belly for protesting against his local's undemocratic management. Later, according to the witness, Maloney casually remarked that after all, it was not unusual for somebody...
...state School Board Association; member, White House Conference on Education). A bundle of energy in politics, he won his biggest political fame when he helped Underwood into office, his biggest reward when he was made boss of West Virginia's thriving G.O.P. Strictly an Eisenhower Republican, he will hold his new office till November, plans to run then to fill out the remaining two years of Neely's term...
...step on policy with Secretary of State Dulles, urged the U.S. to listen with more sympathy to Indonesian claims to Dutch-held West New Guinea, predicted there might be a blowoff if it did not. Dulles, impressed with the need for friendship with the Dutch and the Australians (who hold the eastern half of New Guinea), elected to keep out of the whole New Guinea dispute. Allison also urged the U.S. to reply to an Indonesian request for arms by offering such harmless items as trucks and jeeps, but State again turned him down. Allison's friends complain that...
...story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip and to a fairly high fictional level is Author Humphrey's knack for turning the feelings and motives of his characters this way and that, until each has taken an unshakable hold on the reader's interest...