Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long as they have a vested interest in the very problem that they are trying to solve. This means that you get somebody to solve the problem that does not have any experience...
Hagerty's remarkable success lies far less in his personal than in his professional perfection. And the key to Jim Hagerty is that, despite eight years, which made him a first-rate reporter, for the New York Times, he is not a professional newsman. He works the opposite side of the street. His boss is the President of the U.S. and his duty is to present Ike's words and works in the best possible way. Jim Hagerty, by instinct and training, is a professional presidential press secretary-and as such, he is the first of his kind...
Since World War II, the U.S. has spent $588 million converting Okinawa into the key U.S. military bastion in the Far East. Last week Okinawa's biggest city (pop. 180,000) had a chief executive pledged to rid the island of its "atom-hydrogen bomb base," and to return it to Japanese rule. Said a high-ranking U.S. officer: "Our chief task is to prevent Okinawa becoming a Pacific Cyprus...
...key purpose of strategic penetration aids is deception. Fairchild is therefore developing the all-Fiberglas Goose and McDonnell the Green Quail, both very small, very promising missiles intended to take electronic countermeasures over enemy territory to mix up enemy radar. Advantage of Fiberglas: it is invisible to radar and infra-red detection. Northrop is also developing Crossbow, a vicious air-to-ground missile designed to home in on enemy radar stations and kill them. Another probable radar-killer: Navy's experimental Martin Bullpup...
...coming up for reappraisal, the works of Seurat are about to have their first major museum showing, opening this week at the Chicago Art Institute and moving in March to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. To stage the show, the Chicago Institute, which owns Seurat's key masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (now valued at more than $1,000,000), drew on 86 collections in the U.S. and abroad, brought together a total of 150 sketches and paintings. Of the seven major works that Seurat painted in his brief lifetime, four...