Word: national
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before testifying last week, Charles made a last-ditch attempt to wangle favored treatment from newsmen. To the nation's top TV critics and commentators-NBC's Chet Huntley, the New York Times's Jack Gould, the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby, et al.-he mailed copies of his prepared statement along with personal notes looking for sympathy. Wrote he to Critic Crosby: "I wanted you to have a copy of this complete from my own hand. It's not a pleasant story, but I tried to make it a true...
...Came to Love Charles." Many of the nation's editorial writers were unmoved. The New York Post's Columnist William V. Shannon summed it up for the dissidents when he called Van Doren's testimony "a tasteless exercise in guile and unction. The basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment...
...Effects Go On. For the nation's big steel users, the prospect is for still more layoffs in the next six weeks. More than 410,000 workers outside the steel industry have been furloughed because of the strike; the Department of Labor reports that the layoffs will continue at an accelerating rate as steel supplies are exhausted. Both the number and size of the shutdown plants are increasing...
...Gross National Product. Since 1947, the nation's real gross national product has expanded at an average annual rate of 3.6%, a rate of growth that if sustained would double U.S. production in 22 years. This increase compares with an average rise of 2.9% for the 1909-57 period. Using 1954 dollars, the C.E.D. got a result substantially different from the Council of Economic Advisers' recent report that the G.N.P. rate in the third quarter of 1959 was $481 billion. In the C.E.D.'s 1954 dollars it was only $431 billion...
...from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley...