Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second session of the Democratic 85th Congress ran in a remarkable time. Its life was shaped by Russian Sputniks and rocket diplomacy. Middle East turmoil, U.S. economic recession, election-year politics-by its own generally responsible leadership, and, above all, by the firmest treatment Capitol Hill ever got from Dwight Eisenhower. Last May, after a slow start, the President came out swinging for his program and especially for three legislative "imperatives": 1) defense reorganization, 2) mutual security, and 3) reciprocal trade. These are the grades Congress might give itself on demands of the President and passing the tests of Year...
...scene of disarray of Western allies, of disagreement about important details in official Washington. France's De Gaulle was holding out for his private parley, all but refusing to come to the U.N. at all, and trying fruitlessly to rack up a new continental "third force" under French leadership (see FOREIGN NEWS). At home there was pressure from State Department elements and congressional Democrats for a "more positive" approach to the U.S.S.R. that usually involved concessions to placate neutralist opinion. The Pentagon, on the other hand, was restless lest the diplomats tie the U.S.'s hands...
Counterbalance? Seldom was a guest from a small country more welcome. The State Department saw the nationalism of his year-old country and the promise of his African leadership as a possible future counterbalance to rampant nationalism spreading from the Mideast. Beyond such practical prospects, the vigorous, fit-at-48 African leader seemed to give his Nasser-stung hosts a timely, personal reassurance that they have not become the world's abominable rich uncle. He knew all there was to know about the evils of U.S. segregation because, as a young student just in from Africa's Gold...
...explosive issue is far from settled. The Communists are growing stronger by the day and will try desperately for some form of Popular Front victory in the elections. If they succeed, the military will probably start plotting in earnest. The government's failure to provide responsible, moderate leadership could lead to a bloody showdown between extremists of the left and right...
Friday Club. The new zaibatsu are of a different stripe than their prewar predecessors. Single families, or single firms no longer control the great combines. The zaibatsu depend for leadership on the financiers of their powerful banks, have set up central liaison councils with euphemistic names designed to attract as little attention as possible. Mitsubishi's "Friday Club," presided over by blunt, crop-haired Mitsubishi Trading President Katsujiro Takagaki, 66, is simply a bimonthly meeting, of 22 Mitsubishi company presidents, who continue the cementing process by arranging loans and raising funds for brother companies...