Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question-and-answer show filmed in Washington and telecast in Madison, Proxmire attacked Johnson and much that is sacred to him: 1) the control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson...
Diplomats & Dickens. Watching from the sidelines, some of Britain's allies posed the same question that Russian diplomats in London had been asking for two weeks: What did Macmillan expect to accomplish by all this? Macmillan himself had described his trip as "something in the nature of a reconnaissance." He did not have the authority to speak for the Western alliance as a whole-though the British picture him, after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope...
...matter for debate last week whether any student had been stimulated, but there was no question that something had been done. Of a freshman class of 2,500, half were on scholastic probation...
...with three other Negro sailors and our dates, I was refused a table at the Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question docs not matter: "I don't want to be anybody's brother-in-law. I just want to be his brother...
...engineer, realized that the company's salvation lay in scrapping its big-car line for a single, easy-to-build, low-priced small car that did not have to compete on the Big Three's terms. In January 1958, Churchill gathered his top executives and put the question to them; at the end of the less than two hour meeting, the decision was made...