Word: reines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he is doing it with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision of the armed forces, headed off Pentagon feuds, supervised a military arsenal that has changed more drastically in four years than at any other time in U.S. history. He has kept a rein on unnecessary crash programs of weapon development, insisted that if proven new weapons were phased into the defense program, old weapons should be phased out. All the while, Wilson has exercised an asset that was a prime reason for recruiting him. Handling the largest chunk of U.S. budget expenditures, he has gone...
...machines. He abandoned Donegani's one-man rule for a U.S.-style line-and-staff system, authorized plant managers to run the works on the spot, set up executive committees in Milan to supervise the major decisions and divisions. On the technical side he held a lighter rein, giving considerable scope to Engineer Perio Giustiniani. a fellow Tuscan who has served with Faina as co-president since...
...Hungary had suggested a slight retreat; out went Stalinist Rakosi and in came Gero, also a Stalinist but less notoriously so. In Poland, the Poznan defense lawyers were allowed unheard-of freedom. Khrushchev boasted recently in Moscow (to Italy's junketing No. 2 Red, Luigi Longo) that his rein-loosening program was popularizing and perpetuating Soviet Communism in the satellites. In theory, it may have been a sound risk...
...insiders concede that Bob Kintner kept a close rein on the newcomers from Paramount. But he gave plenty of authority to the able old ABC hands; e.g., Vice President John Daly has almost full policy-making and operations control over the news, special events, sports and foreign affairs...
JAMES NANCE, who recently stepped down as President of Studebaker-Packard, will take a job as Ford Motor Co.'s vice president for marketing. Nance will have free rein as general sales boss on company-wide basis...