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...nation's stormiest political debates swirls around a series of digits: Ten-Four-Fifty, officially Executive Order 10450, issued by the President on April 27, 1953, establishing broad new security standards for federal employment. Critics say that Ten-Four-Fifty results in a cold reign of terror among Government workers, that no man is safe from his neighbor's malice. Defenders say that Order 10450 is necessary to protect the U.S. from the infiltration of its Government by enemies...
DURING World War II the U.S. spent $15 billion to build the mightiest merchant marine the world has ever known. But the peacetime U.S. merchant fleet has floundered along on a course of argument, scandal, and poverty until now both shippers and shipbuilders face the stormiest sailing since the Depression. Of 1,329 vessels (with another 1,996 in mothballs) currently flying the U.S. flag, fully 80% will be obsolete by 1965, and new ships to replace them are not coming off the ways. Since 1952 U.S. shipyards, once the world's busiest, have dropped from fourth to eighth...
...stormiest battle in Greenbelt's squally history was joined...
...Laborites had just come from a private meeting of their own, one of the stormiest in years. Rebel Aneurin Bevan, who is louder about his anti-Americanism than his antiCommunism, was now making no secret of his campaign to wrest the party from Moderate Clement Attlee. The Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill...
...lanky, cantankerous law professor, Velasco Ibarra at 59 is the stormiest figure in Ecuadorian politics. In two terms as President (1934-35, 1944-47), he floundered left and right, created a crisis every week, turned against his backers, made himself dictator and got booted out by the army. He showed a sure sense for the common touch. Once, tearing his trousers climbing into the rickety presidential limousine, he rejected the idea of getting another car, saying: "We will mend the pants, repair the car, and build a school with the cost of a new car." He was wildly erratic: when...