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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free society, we take our job with the utmost seriousness, and I know of no publication that devotes more effort to covering the news and, indeed, to the uncovering of it. Thus, we are likely to be singled out among journals and be ourselves the subject of comment. And often it will mean that as practitioners of responsible journalism we shall be dealing-fairly and accurately, I hope-with unpleasant subjects from friendly lands. But how could it be otherwise? Unless, of course, you are calling for a guided press...
...Senate, often in a pinchpenny mood when it comes to appropriations for other branches of Government, can feel quite the opposite when it comes to its own creature comforts. Last week Illinois' Paul Douglas gently belabored his colleagues with some unanswerable facts about their own housekeeping extravagance. Piled in the corridors of the old Senate Office Building, Douglas reported, are 375 desks, 215 steel filing cabinets, 400 chairs, many other odd pieces of old but usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that...
Also constantly tested Army-wide, often at 3 or 4 a.m.: how fast each unit can be combat loaded and on the road toward prepared battle positions. Minimum requirements for each unit's mobilization of manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than 15% on leave at once. Yet in their drills the battle-ready battalions never roll all the way to their carefully prepared positions. Reason: in the age of tactical missiles, battle positions are secret; the Seventh wants no fixed Russian missiles zeroed in on battle targets...
Long Scoffers. Nehru's lashing out at the Communists, after years of a kind of neutralism that often had harsh words for the West but muted its displeasure with the Communists (and even publicly underwrote Peking's "peace-loving" intentions), won him cheers in the Assembly. Congress Party President Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was tougher. Speaking in Kerala, the only Red-ruled state in India, she flatly declared that "Communism and democracy are incompatible-they are opposite." For the first time, there is widespread discussion of the threat posed to India by the armed might...
...salaried white collar people are sharing in the benefits of the economic "miracle." Since 1948, wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often work (one-third of Germany's labor force are women), as do children past 16. If salaries sound low, there are also the vital "fringe benefits" provided by the federal government. Steered by the "social free market" philosophy of Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard, the government pumps...