Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's big news was still that the U.S. had done something that only a year ago the Administration had said it would never do: it had stopped its own tests primarily on good faith, without any provision for inspection-and the stoppage made many a policy-planner uneasy. Last week Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone admitted at his first press conference what he had long argued in private (TIME. Sept. 1)-that stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential for U.S. defense, e.g., antimissile missiles...
...city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised $450,000 in loans, set itself a high goal: no regimentation, no restrictions, the most advanced technology and design ("We must be mindful that we are building for 50 to 100 years"), yet a range of prices that would permit middle-income families to rent...
...Five-Year-Planner Mikhail Pervukhin, who voted against Khrushchev during last June's leadership showdown, was shipped off even before the elections to be Soviet Ambassador to East Germany. Question for Premier Bulganin, who also guessed wrong last summer: If one nomination meant East Germany, what did 15 portend...
...public feuding between Harry Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson and ex-Acheson State Department Planner George Kennan over Kennan's call for a neutral Germany (TIME, Jan. 20) reflects far more than a mere difference of political opinion. Acheson regards the strong Germany policy as his own-hammered out in the late 1940s over Kennan's opposition-and regards Kennan's attack more as a personal affront than an attack on Successor John Foster Dulles. Still silent in this Democratic debate over foreign policy fundamentals: Adlai Stevenson, who despite earlier, well-publicized intimations...
...disassociate himself from Stalin's terror, and the New Class was grateful. Khrushchev himself told British Laborite Aneurin Bevan the story of how it had been before. Presidium members, said Khrushchev, drew up a plan to decentralize the economy after World War II, and Voznesensky, the chief economic planner, took it to Stalin. "Voznesensky came back," said Khrushchev, "and told them Stalin had denounced him as a traitor to socialism. This made them angry because Voznesensky had merely done what they had told him to do. They went to Stalin next day and told him this: that it was their...