Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government spenders" as far back as he could, and rebuilt the budget barricades. Hughes operates somewhat more snugly behind them. Nonetheless, he is out of bed, in his northwest Washington apartment, at 5:30 a.m. to read for an hour. At 7 o'clock his wife, Dorothy (they met at a Science church in 1918 in Shanghai, where her father, James Cowen, worked for Millard's Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips of bacon, hot lemonade. (Hughes's other...
...long haul, the Air Force, for example, had been programming fiscal 1957 since Oct. 7, 1954. Through the summer, all departments worked out their tentative figures, with assists from the bureau's corps of 150 specialists. ("They're very good," admits Navy Secretary Charles Thomas.) Most agencies met the Sept. 30 deadline, sending in their appropriation requests on the notorious "green sheets," and their justifications on white "language sheets." Soon afterward, the Budget offices buzzed with final hearings, as the bureau's examiners delved deep into controversial items. For example, in considering the money request from...
After one final dry run on D-minus-one, the gang was ready. "During the early evening of Jan. 17, 1950," said the FBI's announcement, "members of the gang met in the Roxbury section of Boston and entered the rear of a Ford stake-body truck, which had been stolen in Boston in November 1949 to be used in the robbery. Including the driver, this truck carried nine members of the gang to the scene. During the trip, seven of the men donned...
Softspoken, grey-haired Zorin has the diplomatic manner, often makes cracks about uncultured and unimportant comrades, deftly turns difficult conversation into innocuous channels when it suits him. Said a German diplomat who met him last week: "If you didn't know differently, you would think he was from Denmark or Sweden, or perhaps Canada. His face is animated and kind." In short, Zorin is one of the few Russian diplomats who is readily distinguishable from his bodyguard. But behind the kind, animated exterior of Valerian Zorin lies one of the deadliest minds in diplomacy...
Malia felt that the Russian people "are charming, pleasant to meet, and interested to learn more about the West." Malia met Khrushchev and Bulganin at a cocktail party at the Kremlin. His impressions of the two leaders were that "Bulganin seemed bored and socially shy, while Khrushchev was vulgar and superficially exhuberant...