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...Star Step. In proof positive of the Administration's determination to get going on reorganization, McElroy finished out his week's work by issuing an order-as required by the President's plan itself (TIME, April 14)-that will go far to squelch harmful high-level interservice rivalries. Henceforth, said the order, the Secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force will submit recommendations for promotion of generals and admirals above two-star rank to the Defense Secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff-and not directly to the President. It is Neil McElroy's intention...
...NOISE PROBLEM has been whipped, says Boeing. Three years and $5,000,000 spent on research produced a sound suppresser that Boeing claims will make its four-jet 707s quieter than big piston planes. The device, still secret, breaks up jet exhaust into many small streams, diffuses them to squelch noise...
...curves. Says a Furcolo friend: "Poor Eisenhower. Poor Furcolo. They're both really in the same jam." Then he adds: "It will turn out to be suicide if they [the congressional Democrats] destroy the party's longstanding program and adopt shortsighted economy just because they want to squelch Eisenhower." Says an Illinois leader: "Our party ought to be in there fighting to save the defense and foreign-aid budgets. The Democratic Party created the Eisenhower security policies, and we should fight for them now, not abandon what is right for the sake of fast politics...
...some time the development of American cinema as responsible social criticism has been hampered by an outdated Movie Production Code which has recently been radically liberalized. This code is a voluntary intraindustry set-up designed to assuage self-appointed guardians of the national moral fiber and to squelch agitation for federal censorship. It is not aimed primarily at pornography or obscenity, but at insuring that the films will not conflict with moral principles of one sort or another. Crime doesn't pay, true love always wins out, infidelity and adultery must be punished, national honor, the fair name of American...
When a reporter asked how he felt about Chief Justice Earl Warren as a possible Republican presidential candidate, the President's reply was so outspoken as to squelch the Warren fans (who have had no encouragement from Warren): "We shouldn't get too great a confusion between politics and the Supreme Court...