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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year Johnson's showy record-writing has been abetted considerably by the ineptness of Senate Republican leaders and the slow motion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the uproar over the success of Sputnik, it was Johnson, as chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, who grabbed the initiative (and the headlines), set up hearings, heard expert testimony from about 200 of the top men in the Defense Department, the armed services, science and industry. So successful was he in capturing the attention of press and colleagues that he produced his own "State of the Union" message...
...biggest diplomatic achievement : a quiet, tactful, inconspicuous campaign as Ambassador to India (1953-57) to persuade Indian officials from Nehru on down that the Soviets were not dogmatic but only reasonable folk who wanted to help. He negotiated a five-year Russo-Indian trade deal, helped get a slow-building but photogenic propaganda Russian steel mill for India, did a bang-up job of setting up Bulganin and Khrushchev's triumphal Indian tour, and even gave Nehru, on behalf of the Kremlin, a personal twin-engined Ilyushin plane. Said one Indian editor: "He didn't hit the headlines...
...Slow. To the gratification of a group of dissident Laborites calling themselves "Victory for Socialism" (TIME, March 10), Labor Party chieftains have also found it expedient to emphasize the go-slow aspects of the party's policy on nuclear armaments, last week issued a new policy declaration calling for 1) suspension of British H-bomb tests for "a limited period"; 2) immediate discontinuance of patrol flights from British bases of U.S. planes loaded with hydrogen bombs; 3) postponement of construction work on U.S. missile bases in Britain until a new attempt has been made to negotiate with the Soviet...
...French Composer Henry Barraud's Third Symphony, played on the same program with Piston. It proved to be a craggy piece that achieved its emotional impact through a series of sharp contrasts. The music was by turn slow, dense, lyrical, harsh, full of sharp emotional edges. Composer Barraud got a polite hearing but sent his audience delving into their programs in search of the unifying idea the music seemed to lack. CJ Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto, performed in Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary...
Some of the agencies have proved on occasion that they can overcome, or at least cut down, the lengthy and costly red tape that makes a nightmare out of the simplest issue. The FTC was a slow-moving bureaucracy when former Chairman Edward Howrey took over in 1953. He eliminated or bypassed many petty details of bureaucracy, cut the average time for processing an antimonopoly case from 65 months to 22 months today. Under present Chairman John Gwynne, only one in five FTC cases goes through the full and costly process; the others are settled by consent agreements...