Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role that combined old memories with new trust, the President carried a special strength for NATO. Stopping off at Bonn, he said that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer symbolized "freedom," and at once Adenauer was unchallengeable in West Germany. He went on TV with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see The Presidency), gave an undeniable push to Macmillan's reelection. The President and France's President Charles de Gaulle clasped hands as men of honor, and NATO's recent rifts were forgotten; De Gaulle later messaged the President: "I very much hope to be able...
Toward talk's end. Ike made a special point of sounding a strong note on West Berlin: "Freedom, if there's to be peace, is indivisible. We've really got to be firm." Macmillan said, "I agree." On parley-at-the-summit, the President cautioned firmly: "I will not be a party of a meeting that is going to depress and discourage people. Therefore, we must have some promise of fruitful results...
...going along part way after another long balk, the House voted to take off the 3.26% ceiling on savings-bond interest rates. But Congress' failure to lift the interest ceilings on other long-range U.S. Treasury bonds, the White House hinted, might call for a special session this fall. The President's surprisingly successful stand on legislative matters has thoroughly rocked Democratic leaders accustomed to using their huge majorities for give-a-little-take-a-lot compromises with the White House...
...Secretary of the Air Force from May 1957 until he resigned in July. In the shuffle, Rickenbacker, 68, kept the board chairmanship, will also head a new seven-man policymaking committee. Ailing (from a back injury) President Thomas F. Armstrong, 56, will become executive vice president of Eastern with special responsibility for financial matters...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of This Murder Comes to You Live, a standard whodunit with a special appeal: this time a TV panelist is murdered on the air. Involved in the happy crime: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ray Walston and Buster Crabbe. Color...