Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minuses & the Plus. At 9:30 a.m. the Joint Chiefs met for the day's first joint session. Each officer was aware, out of years of military, diplomatic and economic study and experience, of the minuses of U.S. involvement in the oil-rich but base-poor volatile Middle East. The Air Force had run staff studies on locating strategic and tactical air bases in the Middle East, had come away convinced that the Middle East was so vulnerable to Russia's near-at-hand Ilyushin light bombers and tactical missiles that the U.S.A.F.'s strategic bombers ought...
Another writer, in the humanities session with Mrs. Piper, is Martin Walser, German short-story author and novelist. German and American intellectuals are in the same boat, stated Walser, because they are not directly in the employ of their governments and stand apart from their people. "While the intellectual cannot agree with what goes on around him, it's not his business to be angry or propose ready remedies." An intellectual, Walser stated, "should be a diagnostician, not a surgeon...
...Speaker's desk," and thus ready for floor action under special committee-bypassing rules, despite insistent protests of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the bill ought to go through the normal committee channel. If sent to committee so late in the session, the bill would die there, and that is just what the N.A.M. and the Chamber want. Reason: they object to half a dozen minor Taft-Hartley revisions, e.g., requiring employers to report to the Labor Department all financial dealings with labor unions or labor officials. As for reforming unions...
Waiting in Vain. The revolt had been timed for the early morning departure of King Feisal, the Crown Prince, and Nuri asSaid for Istanbul, to attend an emergency session of the Baghdad Pact-concerned not about Iraq, but revolt-torn Lebanon...
Bulletins from the Bosses. Periodically during the President's visit, his press secretary, James Hagerty, and Prime Minister Diefenbaker's press secretary, James Nelson, dropped the attending newsmen substantial tidbits of news. From one of the Ike-Dief sessions, they announced, came a decision to set up the Canada-U.S. Committee on Joint Defense. From another working session came an apparent solution to a problem that has irritated Canadians: the regulation of foreign sales of U.S.-controlled subsidiaries in Canada...