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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MULTITHANKS FOR A FINE PIECE ON NEWSMEN IN CARACAS [Feb. 3]. HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE INACCURACY WHICH MUST BE STRAIGHTENED OUT BECAUSE IT REFLECTS UNFAVORABLY ON CORRESPONDENTS. THE LIQUOR BAN WAS DEFEATED TOO, AND AT LEAST TWO TIME AND LIFE OPERATIVES CAN TESTIFY THEY ATTENDED POST MORTEM SESSIONS ON REVOLUTION WITHOUT ANYBODY'S THROAT OUTDRYING...
...also the hottest; in addition to being responsible for new U.S. space weapons and weapons defenses, the director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency must also be able to defend himself against sharpshooting from Congress and from the three armed services. Picked for the post last week by Defense Secretary McElroy: squarejawed, cool-eyed Roy W. (for William) Johnson, 52, vice president of the General Electric Corp. Johnson will resign from G.E. (but keep "substantial" G.E. stock), take over ARPA April i after two weeks of briefings for an assignment that has no precedent...
...Lieut. General James Gavin, the brainy chief of Research and Development, and Major General John Medaris, the able military commander at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, saw in a successful moon, and its proof of rocket superiority, a way for the Army to break out of its post-Korea roles-and-missions bog-down. But the orders giving Vanguard its exclusive franchise on space were clear and firm, and the Army could not risk defying them...
...whether Washington's "Big Six" regulatory commissions* had been operating autonomously, as Congress intended, without undue pressures from the White House or Capitol Hill. Such an investigation might well have been valuable and would have been welcomed by the commissions themselves. But Professor Schwartz applied for the counsel post, landed it, and bloodhounded an unscheduled investigation into the individual conduct of commission members...
Powered Dowry. In Paradise, Calif., the Post ran a personal notice: "A wealthy young Paradise widow very desirous of meeting young man of marriageable age with tractor-it must be in good shape. Please bring photo of tractor to Campbell's Waffle Shop ... I always eat there...