Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference at Geneva in 1955 the U.S. and Russia have been trying to work out a cultural exchange agreement. Last week, after three months of negotiations, they signed one which, if carried out in good faith, might be an important "beginning of a beginning" (as Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson put it). Under its terms the two nations undertake, during 1958 and 1959, to swap...
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...
...interim report was notably shy on hard specifics (e.g., what kind of Pentagon reorganization?), but Johnson expects to remedy this shortcoming in a final recommendation to Congress a month hence. The report was nonetheless an effective reminder that the committee had done the nation a distinct service by providing a well-run forum for debating and exposing defense weaknesses at a critical time...
...State Department let it be known that Ambassador John Moore Allison would soon be transferred from crisis-tangled Indonesia to the U.S. embassy in Prague. Official version: the U.S. needs an able, realistic man in Communist Czechoslovakia to succeed able, realistic U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, who has met Red China negotiators in 73 face-to-face sessions, will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow...
...Among other C.N.B. alumni: Walter Howey, model for the managing editor in The Front Page, the play's co-author Charlie MacArthur, and Hildy Johnson, the real-life reporter who was its hero. * No kin to Novelist Francoise Sagan, whose real name is Quoirez...