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Percentage Figuring. A year ago, Herbert Hoover Jr. was as little known to the public eye as his father had been, say, in 1914. He was basking on a California beach last September, reading a newspaper account of the deadlock in Iran and feeling pleased that he was not mixed up in it, when Secretary Dulles called him on the phone from Washington. Would Hoover go to Iran, as a State Department special adviser, and see if he could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador...
Among the signers: liberal Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and conservative Republican Senator John Bricker, A.F.L. President George Meany and former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving Olds, ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet Conrad Aiken. Also among the signers: General George C. Marshall, who, between tours as Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, spent a year in China half-persuading the Nationalists to lie down like lambs with the conquest-bent Communists...
...postwar head of the Central Intelligence Agency. But Smith is leaving Government work because 1) he is not in good health (ulcers), and 2) he wants to make some money (as-executive vice president of American Machine & Foundry Co.). To succeed Smith, President Eisenhower last week appointed Herbert Hoover Jr., 51, son of the Republican ex-President. Hoover Jr. is a tall, unassuming engineer with diplomatic talents who carried off the oil settlement in Iran (TIME, Aug. 16). In the last hours of the 83rd Congress, the Senate confirmed Hoover's appointment without debate or dissent. He will take...
...dangers from the gigantic Communist source of evil in the world are unending," said Hoover. "Amid these malign forces, our haunting anxiety and our paramount necessity is the defense of our country...
Imaginary Creature. Hoover was clearly as worried about the internal defenses of the nation as the external defenses. Said he: "Among the delusions offered us by fuzzy-minded people is that imaginary creature, the Common Man. It is dinned into us that this is the Century of the Common Man . . . It is the negation of individual dignity and a slogan of mediocrity and uniformity . . . The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of the Uncommon Men or Women. We need men and women who cannot be intimidated, who are not concerned with applause meters, nor those...