Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTO the post-Sputnik atmosphere of foggy fear and cautious reassurance came this week a careful, levelheaded assessment of the dangers that face the U.S. and some hardheaded suggestions as to what ought to be done about them. This was the Rockefeller Report, drawn by a panel of 19 citizens * after 14 months of hearing expert testimony, weighing evidence and hammering out conclusions. The report's basic message: the U.S.. with perhaps a two-year clear superiority in striking power, is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race. "Unless present trends are reversed...
...Panel II, one of seven panels set up in the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc. of New York. Co-signers of the Defense Report: Investment Banker Frank Altschul, vice president, Council on Foreign Relations; General (ret.) Frederick L. Anderson, commander of the Eighth Bomber Command in World War II; onetime Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen; President Detlev W. Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary...
...woman circulating petitions, climbed out of his car to demand that she be chased off the property. Publicly, he charged that his biggest opposition came from "non-Denverites and crackpots," and so alienated the few leading businessmen and professional men who had remained on the sidelines. On public panel programs he would all but stop the show by insulting his opponents. When a petition was circulated for his recall, Big Nick allowed that he would like to sign it, "because I would like to see what these people look like." In bounced three sponsors of the petition; the mayor read...
...housing.* Effective next April, 1,787,000 nonrestricted apartments will be available to all tenants and buyers; landlords and owners who refuse to rent or sell to Negroes, Jews, Puerto Ricans or other minority groups will have to face complex "conciliation" hearings before a newly created Fair Housing Practices Panel, backed up by the threat of city-obtained court orders to enforce compliance with the law. Exempted: one-or two-family houses, unless they are part of a development of ten or more houses...
Nixon's dose of realism was hard for the N.A.M. to take. Although a panel of four Congressmen had earlier warned that a tax cut was unlikely, most of the preceding speeches had been full of the sort of wishful thinking that the N.A.M.'s members apparently never tire of. Speakers argued for tax reductions and less Government spending, against interstate commerce regulations and the Tennessee Valley Authority...