Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less emotion and more judgment, top architects, including Eero Saarinen and M.I.T.'s Pietro Belluschi, enthusiastically praised the originality and appropriateness of the chapel. The House, by a vote of 102 to 53, took a stand against the architects. Next day the House reversed itself and approved the building, 147 to 83. This week the Senate will begin to make its esthetic judgment of the chapel, with strong emphasis on the beauty of $3,000,000 in economy-minded...
...elected official he is not subject to U.S. conflict-of-interest laws, after the 1952 election he transferred the bulk of his assets to "an irrevocable trust, so that during the period that I am President, I do not even know what I own, so that no judgment of mine can ever be influenced by any fancied advantage I could get out of my relatively modest holdings . . . The only reports I have from private investments are at the end of the year; reports as to what I owe in taxes, and that...
Four-Word Manual. When newspapers cover business with top reporters and the uninhibited news judgment on which-in every other field-newsmen pride themselves, they are usually rewarded with heavy readership. The Philadelphia Bulletin's Financial Editor J. (for Joseph) A. Livingston, whose syndicated, thrice-weekly column is carried by some 60 other dailies, attracts a broad cross section of readers with straight-from-the-shoulder reporting that acknowledges no sacred cows. Leslie Gould, daily columnist (50 papers) and financial editor for Hearst's New York Journal-American, writes about his subject as if he were covering...
...board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board cleared him, and "to damn him now and ruin his career and his service, I cannot...
...House of Representatives agreed last week upon a "compromise" defense budget of $33.75 billion plus for fiscal 1958, billions less than the President's original minimum request. Had Congress cut too far, too fast into the muscles of everybody's security? Had the Administration trimmed its judgment on national security to appease congressional critics...