Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Called before the committee was the Navy's volatile virtuoso. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, 59 (see Diplomacy), who only a few months before casually told another committee: "I myself don't get pressured by outsiders, but they do go higher up and get pressure put on me that way." This time, Committee Chairman F. (for Felix) Edward Hébert of Louisiana wanted Rickover to name some names. Rickover parried and philosophized. Some Navy men, said he, are "impressed with outside experts, especially those with 'Dr.' in front of their names." Then there is the problem...
...week's end, Hébert's committee, satisfied so far that the uses of retired officers' influence had not gone beyond proper bounds, put off further hearings on the subject till another time. Said Hébert: "Some people have said this committee will be a bust if we don't crucify somebody. To those people, it is a bust already...
...Gaulle's first major steps towards putting France's house in order last December was stabilizing the franc at 493.7 to the dollar through a devaluation of 17.5%. The stabilization worked, but the low esteem of the franc as a unit of foreign exchange still rankled. This week the French Treasury put into effect Operation Le Franc Lourd (the heavy franc): by striking two zeros off all existing currency, the outside-France value of the franc jumped 100 times, to nearly five-to-the-dollar. The franc thus again became a respectable neighbor of the British shilling...
...post through two smashing election defeats precisely because the party could not make up its mind about its future, abruptly announced that he was stepping down as a candidate for Chancellor next time. In a sense it was Nikita Khrushchev who forced the decision. Last March Leftist Social Democrats put over a new party program, hoping to reunify Germany by appeasing the Russians. But when Ollenhauer went hat in hand to Khrushchev in Berlin, he found the Soviet leader frankly contemptuous of the Socialists' offer of German withdrawal from NATO. After that humiliating meeting, Socialist popularity fell. Instead...
...Schmid's health should fail (he suffered a stroke in 1956), the party might put forward another member of the selection commission, a man who is otherwise being groomed to run for Chancellor in 1965 : West Berlin's dynamic Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. Nobody needs to worry where Willy stands on Communism...