Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marion Bayard Folsom, 63, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was brought from his post as Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1955 to succeed retiring Oveta Gulp Hobby. He set to work with less fanfare, more success, preaching a doctrine that is the Eisenhower answer to the Fair Deal: the G.O.P. is not opposed to spending money for worthwhile welfare projects. Though softspoken and retiring, Folsom, when treasurer of Eastman Kodak and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, learned to be suave enough to counter pressure groups, courageous enough to fight against more con servative colleagues for programs...
Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield, 57, followed the traditional path of victorious presidential campaign chairmen to the Postmaster General's chair, there largely abandoned politics to supervise sweeping Post Office reforms. To the public, modernization shows up in such improvements as red, white and blue mailboxes and trucks and trim new uniforms. To business experts it shows up more impressively in such innovations as administrative streamlining and cost accounting. Return ing for a new term. Summerfield must tackle a task he has failed at before: convincing Congress that rates should be upped (present thinking: 5? for all first-class mail...
During the war years when Russians had things free and easy in Washington, the FBI began to note with interest the comings and goings of an especially free and easy Russian named Vassily Zubilin. Zubilin's official post as a minor functionary in the Soviet embassy was, they discovered, only a cover. Under the aliases Peter and Cooper, he traveled about the U.S. getting in touch with Communist Party members and suspected Red agents. Years after he was recalled to Russia, a Soviet defector identified him as a secret-police general and an overseer of Soviet espionage...
Duly invited by Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad to fill its first big NATO post, Bonn last week nominated Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 59, to the Central European land-forces command. Thus U.S., British and French divisions in Germany will now pass under the command of a man who fought against them in two wars. The French, who might have been expected to make a fuss, were already taken care of; only in Britain, which will have four divisions under Speidel's command, could there be heard the suppressed sound of tight-throat swallowing...
...decades art experts around the world have yearned to get through the Iron Curtain and see for themselves what is on the walls of Leningrad's famed, sprawling, be jeweled Hermitage Museum. Those who have been able to do so in the post-Stalin thaw have come away with confirmation of a long-held belief: the Hermitage is every bit as good as the Communists claim (see color pages for some of its rarely reproduced masterpieces). Sterling Callisen, the Metropolitan Museum's dean of education, who recently spent six goggle-eyed, footsore days roaming the Hermitage...