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Plans for quick confirmation of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet appointees seemed to be purring along as smoothly as a 1953 Cadillac; then the engine suddenly began to pound. The noise came from the hearing room of the Senate Armed Services Committee where Secretary of Defense-designate Charles Erwin Wilson was being questioned in closed sessions. He had resigned as president of General Motors, said Wilson, but he still held 39,800 shares of G.M. stock worth approximately $2,500,000, and in the next three years he is to get bonuses, including 1,800 more shares of stock...
...people who pound their fists and mutter aphorisms about smoke and fire ignore the breadth of Acheson's work. Between his becoming Undersecretary and now, the free world was forced to recognize one of the most unpalatable truths in recent times--the inescapable danger of modern Russia. As the Secretary of State, Acheson was the one primarily responsible for solving the vast problems that appeared during the transition from hope to reality. He had to determine the very premises of policy, as well as the policies themselves...
Chick Chandler at 167 and Ken Culbert at 177 scored Harvard's two pin victories. Chandler pinned Gordon of Williams in 4:58, and Culbert thumped the Ephmen's Murphy in 7:35. In the 157 pound match, Harvard's Bud Adams won the closest contest of the day, a 2-0 decision over Bill Gemill of Williams...
Either Frank Dewar or Larry Wilde will battle in the 147-pound class, Pete Hiam is registered for 137-pound competition, Captain John Lee will battle in the 130-pound class, and Don Fern is scheduled to fight in the 123-pound bout...
Tony Caimi, a 157-pound letter winner last year who has been out with a football injury, is slated to return for the next meet, with West Point February 7. He has not wrestled this year, but his return should strengthen the team, Lee said...