Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The sharp crack of political rifle fire spanged through Washington again last week as Democrats picked off Democrats up the length of Pennsylvania Avenue. The sniping at Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his cautious tactics in Congress had been going on for months, but seasoned observers thought they detected a...
Fulbright was vexed at the President, because White House influence had helped kill off Fulbright's cherished plan for a five-year Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund, financed by back-door borrowing from the U.S. Treasury (TIME, July 13). Ike was vexed at the Senate, because it had chopped...
The U.S. last week informed the NATO Council in Paris that it intended to move 225 F-100 fighter-bombers from France to Britain and West Germany. Reason: the French government would not let the U.S. ship the fighter-bombers' nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put...
A few days before Secretary of State Christian Herter took off for a new round of the Geneva conference on Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS), a bipartisan delegation from Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy marched into his office to voice some grave misgivings. The committee's worry: in...
The other star to testify was Admiral Arthur Radford, who retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of...