Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State, Herter has made few headlines in a job where headlines are likely to come only after major gaffes (as Herter's Under Secretary predecessor, Herbert Hoover Jr., found out more than once). Herter has won Secretary Dulles' increasing confidence, in the last year has been handed day-to-day direction of U.S. policy at the Geneva disarmament and nuclear-test conferences, in the critical Middle East and in Indonesia. He knows his job and he likes it, and for however long Foster Dulles may be gone. Chris Herter, subject always to the will of the President...
...Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 56, heir to a great Republican name, for 13 years Senator from Massachusetts, Dwight Eisenhower's campaign manager in 1952. President Eisenhower has great respect for Lodge, has insisted that he attend Cabinet meetings. But the nomination of Cabot Lodge, for all his obvious abilities, would almost certainly invite trouble in the Senate, where oldtimers still remember the impetuous, sometimes undependable ways of his youthful days as a Senator-even though an older and more considerate U.N. ambassador has long since mended the ways...
...School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses...
...bettered the New York Times's description of James Fisk Jr.: "First in war, first in peace and first in the pockets of his countrymen." Financier Fisk sacrificed the flower of his youth to selling mildewed blankets to the Union Army and smuggling Confederate cotton into the mills of his native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler...
...Other officials chosen were: Kenneth W. Gilchrist '60, of Kirkland House and Gadsden, Ala., vice-president; James F. Flug '60, of Dunster House and New York City, treasurer; Preston Townley '60, of Leverett House and Minneapolis, Minn., station manager and member of the Administrative Board; and Edward J. McGuire, Jr. '60, of Leverett House and Port Washington, N.Y., member of the Administrative Board...