Word: letting
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...unify" the armed services. As President of the U.S., Dwight Eisenhower has a better basic knowledge of how the services work than any President in modern history. Yet, paradoxically, one of the soft spots of his Administration record is that, during the regime of Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, Ike let Pentagon administration get out of hand...
EXPENDITURES. McElroy's predecessor, Charlie Wilson, let costs get so far out of hand that he was forced to call an abrupt halt to military procurement before the end of fiscal 1957. He also had to reduce procurement programs for 1958 to an extent that caused havoc in the airframe industry. McElroy will probably have about $2 billion more than Wilson to spend, will have that much bigger a problem in trying to control the spending...
Four-State Experiment. Benson's 1956 soil bank plan was supposed to cut farm production, but after an expenditure of $61 million, out popped the new heads: while letting a farmer bank part of his land, it left him free to boost output on the unbanked acres, and surpluses set new records. Last week Benson announced a new plan that might at least keep the struggle even: get entire farms out of crop production. Beginning right away, he said, the Agriculture Department will let farmers in four scattered test states-Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, Tennessee-submit land-rental bids. When...
Foot, who had arrived declaring that he had "an open mind," pleaded for calm in which Britain, Turkey and Greece could try to unravel the tangle. He was not going to let pride stand in his way. When local officials refused to come to see him at Government House, Foot called on Nicosia's Greek Cypriot mayor in his own home. "Things are bad-very bad," said Foot. "But give me a break and I know we can find...
...Honorable members," pleaded the speaker of Ghana's Parliament in the midst of a sudden outburst of anger on the floor, "let there be harmony in this House." Ghana's legislators were debating the Emergency Powers Bill by which the increasingly highhanded government of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah pro posed to arm itself with virtually dictatorial powers in case of a too-militant opposition. Time and again in the course of the two-week debate, shouts and catcalls, taunts and insults were hurled across the floor...