Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Within a fortnight after he had begun to campaign openly for the Ohio Republican nomination for governor, ex-Senator George Bender, now an aide in the Department of the Interior, abruptly bowed out. Behind-the-scenes reason: ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel and the man with a firm grip on Ohio G.O.P. purse-strings, told Bender that the party was reasonablysatisfied with Republican Incumbent C. William O'Neill, could not standa bitter primary fight...
Renovation of the structure will depend on city approval. As yet no architect has been selected. Interior changes will involve installation of audio-visual laboratories, meeting rooms, reading rooms, and administrative offices...
Blundering Theorist. For five years Minister of Interior Vallenilla Lanz, 45, had been Perez Jimenez' chief flatterer, political soothsayer and official philosopher. Suave, well educated (at Paris' Sorbonne) and bookish, Minister Vallenilla mixed ideas from Mussolini, Thorstein Veblen and the U.S. fad of technocracy into a theory justifying dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with...
...twelve-man Fuchs expedition is doing much more than here-to-there exploring. It is a well-equipped group of scientists who are making the first careful, detailed study of the interior of Antarctica. Starting from Shackleton Base on the Weddell Sea, south of South America, on Nov. 24, it headed for South Ice, an advance base 250 miles inland that was established by Fuchs during the Antarctic spring (Oct.-Nov.). This is fearfully difficult country, with two high, parallel mountain ranges, the Theron Range and the Shackleton Range, looming blackly above the snow. The ice between them is torn...
ALASKA OIL LANDS in Kenai moose range will finally be opened for exploration. All oil leasing has been suspended by U.S. since Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil strike in Kenai last summer. Now Interior Secretary Seaton says U.S. authorities "are very close to agreement on additional areas" to be opened for oil search under stiffer rules for preserving wildlife...