Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the new action-now program was a growing impatience by such venturesome Cabinet members as Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Attorney General Bill Rogers and Vice President Nixon with the pacing of antirecession moves. In his letter to Knowland and Martin, the President hit out at Democrats, without calling any actual names, for the "sudden upsurge of pump-priming schemes" put forward by persons lacking "faith in the inherent vitality of our free economy and in the American as an individual." But all in all, the new policy marked a notable shift...
...accepted British and Saudi money in a plot to assassinate Nasser last year. The Nasser-Serraj bombshell successfully diverted Syrians' attention from Nasser's announcement of the new republic's Cabinet-which gives the Egyptians nine of ten U.A.R. ministries, and installs the resourceful Serraj as Interior Minister and strongman of Nasser's Syrian province...
...another post, but gave M'bida no help at all. The Premier dejectedly flew back to the Cameroons' capital of Yaounde, where, realizing that he faced certain defeat in Parliament, he resigned. As successor, the French chose Amadou Ahidjo, 33, who had served as Vice Premier and Interior Minister in M'bida's government. Ahidjo announced his policy: independence (but without a timetable), union of the British and French Cameroons, cooperation with France on a basis of equality and confidence-a program that should steal thunder from the supporters of Moscow and Cairo. Ahidjo also...
...More of Less." Famed for his insistence on precision in both design and execution, Mies insisted that the 4-ft. 7½-in. module for the building be rigorously carried throughout, allowed only a one-sixteenth-inch leeway even in the interior offices, hallways and shower rooms. Draftsmen on the job rapidly discovered that Mies's doctrine of "less is more" applies to work as well as design, spent weeks redesigning door handles, mail chutes and even fire alarms to put them in harmony with the building. To heighten the impact of Mies's austere geometry, the building...
...dull and dowdy by U.S. slick-paper standards, the prospering weeklies reflect Britain's war-born hunger for higher living standards. For the middle-and working-class women who form the bulk of their readership, the magazines are handbag-crammed with counsel on beauty care, clothes, cooking, etiquette, interior decoration and romance...