Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the new spirit surged notably because he had made up his mind to wade into the middle of the liveliest fight since he stepped into the White House. Already the lines were forming in opposition to his Defense Department reorganization plan, designed to simplify the ever-lengthening lines of the U.S. military webwork and give new powers to the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff. Already it was clear that the principal foe was the U.S. Navy, its civilian allies, and its longtime friends on Capitol Hill...
...Here Is Something." Ike, too, had changed his mind since last January, when he allowed that "my personal convictions, no matter how strong," would be subject to a congressional consensus of what was politically feasible. Now, he said, jabbing a thumb at his chest for emphasis: "I don't care how strong [the opponents] are or how numerous they are. Here is something for the U.S. . . . that is necessary. I would get onto the air as often as the television companies would...
When he puts his mind to it, President Eisenhower can make a rousing partisan speech with the best of them. But in his day-to-day dealings, Ike is so coolly detached from GOPartisanship that the party bosses shiver. Last week their teeth chattered at this piece of cool detachment during the presidential news conference...
...that some diplomats, notably Britain's Ambassador Sir Francis Rundall, declared that it would embarrass them to be invited: to bring large numbers of troops and heavy equipment so close to the border would be a violation of the Jordanian-Israeli armistice agreement. "If Jordan doesn't mind our bringing heavy stuff up here for one day," huffed an Israeli Foreign Office spokesman, "why should the diplomats worry...
...Pope Pius XII told delegates of the 13th Congress of the International Association of Applied Psychology that some of the techniques they use to probe the mind are "open to reservations," however praiseworthy the ends. Some secrets, he said, "can absolutely not be unveiled, even to one prudent person." The Pope also condemned the use of lie detectors. Explained a Vatican official: "The lie detector is always illicit, even with the consent of the subject. Just as a man may not consent to euthanasia because religious law forbids him from doing away with himself, so he may not destroy...