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...three-hour conference and a roast-beef lunch with his old chief, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, 74, who looked older and leaner, said: "The President and myself are old friends and have been associated together for many years. He asked me down not only to resume the old friendship but to discuss . . . the general strategic and military situation in various areas of the world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project...
Other doings on Capitol Hill last week: ¶ A Senate-House conference weighed fatter (Senate) and leaner (House) versions of 1954 foreign-aid appropriations, agreed on a difference-splitting $5.1 billion-$3 billion less than the Administration requested. This week both houses passed the measure...
...shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party planners raced to outdo each other with new gimmicks or old variations on the Soviet Stakhanovite system: P. Bykov's "rapid-lathe...
...Force is blazing again in the corridors of the Pentagon with the fiercest intensity since the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949. One reason is that the services, after the fat days of Korean war appropriations, are beginning to scramble for funds in anticipation of leaner days under Eisenhower. Another is that, as Inauguration Day grows closer, retiring Defense Secretary Bob Lovett is losing his firm grip. A third and more fundamental reason is that the Navy is certain it has finally found a method (secret) for mastering Russia's submarine threat, now feels free to turn more...
...literature at the University of Berlin, and stuck it out. Stuart was not the only rebellious Irishman in town. Among his good friends were the Republican army leaders who felt sure they were riding the wave of the future. Gradually the wave ebbed and the certainty faded. Says a leaner, greyer Novelist Stuart, who now lives in Paris by choice: "Who could have suspected in 1939 that things would turn out the way they...