Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limelight sat McCarthy's chief aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
Balky Assembly. The brash and impulsive attempt to eliminate Valencia brought Rojas' smooth-running re-election campaign to a stop. Rojas had hand-picked a new Constituent Assembly, and the assembly quickly drew up a bill to suspend the constitutional provisions that a President must be popularly elected and cannot succeed himself. But a dispute between Military Dictator Rojas and his non-military supporters as to whether the Vice President should be a soldier or a civilian slowed the process...
...saying: "It is about as far advanced as public-opinion polling was in the early '30s." But because it is subtler, and specifically because it deals with the unconscious, MR is probably far more influential than Gallup polling, and potentially more sinister. Psychologist Dichter offers a smooth line in defense: "Persuasion is education. Ideally people should never be influenced, but the fact is they are constantly influenced by parents, teachers, etc. . . . Creative discontent is wholesome; only when the goal of persuasion is to instill stale contentment is it immoral . . ." But a Honolulu public-relations man has misgivings...
Convening in January, the U.S. Congress appeared certain to pass the first major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. As late as March the Eisenhower Administration's civil rights bill seemed headed . for surprisingly smooth congressional sailing. But as Congressmen return from their Easter vacations, the civil rights package is in the deepest sort of trouble. The trouble is compounded of real fears about the principles of the bill and of shrewd Southern maneuvering against...
...President Ernesto de la Guardia of Panama, currently pondering a U.S. request for Nike antiaircraft missile sites in his country. So far he has asked for more concessions (primarily, a greatly increased share of Canal receipts) than the U.S. is willing to pay. De la Guardia beamed at the smooth-running exercises last week and assured a press conference that continued U.S. operation of the Canal was "not even an issue here." But he said nothing about lowering his price on the Nike bases...