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When President Eisenhower set up his special National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs last November, Latin America greeted the news with tongue in cheek. Though the distinguished six-man group* was formed to be Ike's personal consultant on hemisphere problems, some Latins wondered out loud if it would ever be heard from. Last week, as the President headed home from his ten-day tour of the continent, no one doubted that the committee meant business...
...BLEEDING HEARTS, declared another. Then Poole picked up another telegram, read it and reached for the phone. A few minutes later, he carried the wire into the executive mansion and showed it to Governor "Pat" Brown. It was signed by Roy Rubottom Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and it read...
...self-portrait painted about the age of 43. Parts of his collection have been shown in 15 countries, and Fleischman himself generally goes along to lecture. In his native Detroit, he is a sparkplug of Archives of American Art, an institution set up to gather artists' letters, recorded inter views and other research material. "Outside our immediate family," Fleischman says, with a fond glance at his wife, "art is the most important thing in our lives...
...Scott and congressional eight-termer.* They also fear that Powell, by using his old technique of tacking hopeless civil rights riders on to favorable labor bills, will effectively block the bills. Despite this sound suspicion, Meany's public blast against Powell backfired, brought to the surface some old inter-union disputes that threaten to split the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In particular, it rekindled a smoldering feud between Meany and able, aging (70) Asa Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters union and conspicuously the only Negro in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command. Honest A. Philip Randolph is no steady...
...proud for alms and too cynical to be grateful for loans made with strings, e.g., as a "reward" for not going Communist, or under the condition that the money be spent in the U.S. They also suspect help given under pressure, such as the creation of the Inter-American Development Bank shortly after the Nixon stoning. The only honorable motive for aid is real concern over the size of the gap between the levels of living of the hemisphere's north and south...