Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dodge our responsibility. We cut the budget. And if you can, you should." Kansas Republican Errett Scrivner was more pointed: "Foreign aid, of course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids? Rural electrification and telephones? Increased pay for all federal workers? School lunches? Veterans' pensions? Veterans' hospitals and other benefits? The FBI? Our courts? Immigration? Atomic energy? Farm...
...Manila, filling the empty ambassador's post, Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, 52, Ambassador to Moscow since 1953, veteran (28 years) Foreign Service officer and a ranking Department Russian scholar with extensive service as interpreter and adviser at international conferences (e.g., Teheran, Yalta) before reaching his present rank. In the wake of President Magsaysay's death (see FOREIGN NEWS), troubleshooting Chip Bohlen's work in the Philippines seems...
...city itself. Farmers, forced under antiquated laws to pay 70% of their crops to hereditary landlords, gave the Huks sanctuary, and soldiers, often unpaid for months, felt small inclination to hunt them down. Sleeping only three hours a night, Magsaysay took to the air, island-hopped from army post to army post. When he found soldiers living in shacks and eating miserable food, he fired their officers on the spot. Dropping in unannounced on a remote post one cold night and finding soldiers sleeping without blankets, he furiously roused the officers from bed, made them distribute blankets to the enlisted...
...Bailey was impatient to touch down. He had strong personal reasons: as a boy of twelve, he had seen his father, a broker, die at 42 of a lung hemorrhage, the direct result of heart disease. After what Bailey considers less than average preparation for such a post (New Jersey's Rutgers University, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, a year's internship, four years of general practice in Lakewood, N.J., two years of intensive lung surgery), he was placed in charge of chest surgery at Hahnemann in 1940. He is now professor and head of the department...
...course not, says Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald, in leading off a debate on the subject in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The responsibility that goes with the press's privileged position is that of serving as an objective chronicler, watchdog, critic, and independent or extralegal check," says he. By holding "at arm's length" all requests for staffers to serve on charitable, civic and government boards, the Post has found that reporters' "criticism is sharper, the praise is less inhibited and carries a greater impact...