Word: leader
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Question put by House Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy before the House Space Committee last week: Is it still U.S. policy not to strike the first blow in war? Said McElroy: "Our policy is that we will not attack first." Democrat McCormack pressed harder: "Isn't this policy a rather untenable one in case of a great emergency?" McElroy acknowledged that to let U.S. enemies strike the first blow in the nuclear missile age would indeed help a potential attacker, then said of U.S. policy: "Whether that will always be true I think could...
...photographer posed a group portrait: "I have to be careful who I stand behind. My wife sees these pictures, you know." Amid the badinage, Nelson Rockefeller did not betray by so much as a flicker of an eye the fact that his reputation as a political leader hung in the balance in that same grey building. The issue, stated simply, was money...
...manner to Macmillan's unruffled stand. The British have always insisted that they are good at this kind of talking, and Macmillan, fighting flu internally and Nikita's slings from without, went through his ordeal with unflagging style. In private he firmly conveyed to the Soviet leader the danger of misunderstanding the West's determination to remain in Berlin. In public he answered Khrushchev's call for a non-aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force." In the final communiqué his aides...
...driving stigma from Luxembourg's good name, the coalition government last year pushed through a seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did not sit well. Opposition Leader Eugene Schaus charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required by law? In the resultant fuss...
...nothing seemed to satisfy Macharia. Found unfit for one job, he huffily turned down another. A beer shop the government helped him to open flopped. Blaming all his troubles on the government, Macharia decided on revenge. In November he signed an affidavit for People's Convention Party Leader Tom Mboya charging that the Kenya government had paid...