Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Strauss, who has been in Government service on and off since 1917: The hearing shows "a pattern of persecution through long-drawn-out attempts at defamation of a plain man who has done his best as he sees it for his country...
Sandia Corp., he supervised Atomic Energy Commission special-weapons development. In 1953 Quarles was named Assistant Defense Secretary for Research and Development, took charge of U.S. missile and satellite planning, gained Pentagon renown for late-night desk work and a penchant for drinking cups of plain hot water. In 1955 he became Air Force Secretary. Two years later he moved up to Deputy Defense Secretary, became Charles E. Wilson's closest adviser...
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: The lesson of the entire affair seems plain: when Senators seek to carry out personal vendettas against presidential appointees under the guise of improving the diplomatic service, they take the risk of damaging America's diplomatic service...
...usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that $150,000 for new carpeting, requested for no better reason than the fact that Government girls might slip and fall on the tile flooring, struck plain-living Senator Douglas as excessive. He offered to buy the girls rubber heels -from his own pocket...
...remaining 349 non-residents, almost 30 per cent are either married or what Leighton calls "old men"--students whose college careers have been interrupted. About a third are new freshmen, of whom 66 students are "forced, though not necessarily unwilling" commuters, and 52 are just plain "voluntary" commuters. (As recently announced, the Class of '63 will have no "forced" commuters.) The other Dudley members, around 129 students, are "other upperclassmen...