Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malenkov his job as party secretary and resulted in a vigorous campaign by Zhdanov for the revival of strict Marxist orthodoxy in the party. But Malenkov had bet on the right horse. Zhdanov died unexpectedly-in 1948. Soon afterwards, most of his partisans lost their jobs. The Five-Year-Planner Vosnesensky, Zhdanov's most ardent disciple, was liquidated so completely that his name was erased from the Soviet history books. Since then, Malenkov has apparently had a clear track...
Windowless Walls. Though most of the kudos for the overall slab design must go to Corbusier, the panel credits Harrison with translating the basic ideas into blueprints. The final decisions were also his, as chief planner. Most of the time he would sit back, listen to the arguments, then advance his own practical solutions. When the group was satisfied that it had sketched out a workable U.N. workshop, it was time to think about "making a monument." Part of the solution was to sheath the two ends of the Secretariat in unbroken, windowless walls of marble. But even here, Harrison...
What Europe needed was a good local bank, to issue loans, cash IOUs and convert one man's lire into another man's pounds. Marshall Planner Paul G. Hoffman proposed the European Payments Union (EPU), to do two things: 1) "liberalize" European trade by curing its ancient plague of import quotas and exchange controls; 2) act as a central clearinghouse through which the 18 Marshall Plan countries could make all their trading payments. The U.S. put up $350 million to get the bank started; 18 members opened accounts, and EPU was in business, with a two-year lease...
...Embassy in Paris, which implied a tacit sponsorship. Moreover, high policymakers of the State Department were saying privately last week that the Communists are on firm notice that the U.S. is prepared to seize the weapons of its choice if war breaks out again. Said one Washington planner: "If they can read, they know what we mean...
...European allies wanted and formally requested an American for Ike's job. The choice fell between two men: Ridgway, and General Alfred Gruenther, No. 2 man in SHAPE under Ike and perhaps the smartest planner in a U.S. military uniform. A superb administrator, a crack bridge player, Gruenther knew NATO's problems and NATO's leaders, who privately hoped he would get the job. But the leaders were happy to accept Ridgway. Gruenther himself had once said he was too introverted for so extroversive a job as supreme commander. In his brilliant 33-year Army career...