Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dock and airstrip building near Anchorage, road surveys and right-of-way proceedings along the Alaska Railroad, and talk of a $58 million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America...
...Illinois' grey-maned, smooth-talking Everett McKinley ("The Wizard of Ooze") Dirksen, 61, is generally expected to become Senate Republican leader when William Fife Knowland goes off at session's end to run for governor of California. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen...
...little-known Under Secretary of Labor. Ike read the book while recovering from his ileitis operation, was impressed by Larson's carefully reasoned thesis that "New Republicanism" was the wave of the political future, that New Deal Democrats were as out of tune with the times as William McKinley. After his recovery, Ike called Larson in for long, searching talks, made him a presidential speechwriter, later personally boosted him to the high-candlepower ($21,000) job of director of the U.S. Information Agency...
Mars Chamber. Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch...
...England Conservatory Chorus in pieces dating from 1612 to the present. The unpredictable Charles Ives was represented by his strangely polytonal "Sixty - seventh Psalm;" Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Profesor of Music, by "Alleluia," his best piece; Irving Fine '37, by "Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?"; Carl McKinley '17, by a portion of his dramatic legend The Kid, which incorporated American cowboy song material and is scored for piano and percussion; and Mabel Daniels by her rousing "Psalm of Praise" with piano, three trumpets and timpani, composed last year for the 75th anniversary of Radcliffe. Several of the composers...