Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Mrs. Lee, 55, brought her straightforward philosophy of public service to the biggest job of her career. President Eisenhower appointed her the only woman member of the nation's Subversive Activities Control Board at a salary of $20,000 a year. Moved up from the Justice Department's Parole Board, Mrs. Lee, whose engineer husband has always encouraged her political activities, replaces another Republican from the Pacific Northwest, ex-Senator Harry Cain of Tacoma, Wash. Cain joined the board in 1953 as a far-right-wing Red hunter, gradually shifted his position until he bitterly criticized...
...foreign debt so as to ease the repayment strain during the next five years; and 2) long-term loans, actual or promised, covering a large part of the dollar cost of Kubitschek & Co.'s five-year "Power, Transportation and Food" development program. Kubitschek himself plans to make a straightforward appeal to President Eisenhower at the Western Hemisphere Presidents' meeting in Panama. Another Brazilian of distinction who will work for the Ex-Im loan is Rio's new ambassador, to Washington, Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, who arrived in New York last week with his wife Alzira, daughter...
...more than adequate as the niece, though her vocal inflections do not always ring true. William Roberts' set is appositely stark and grim, with a suggestion here and there of classical Greek architecture (as in Boris Aronson's Broadway set). Tharon Musser's lighting is always helpful if straightforward...
Personality & Prospects: Razor-sharp, affable, cool, sensible, he has been popular in the Pentagon, at the White House, with both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, and with the press corps, which has found him straightforward and helpful. Long in the ranks of progressive Republicans, he has been considered somewhat too "liberal" by some of the Taft-wing leaders of the G.O.P. in Nebraska and in Washington. But most knowing observers who have watched him operate agree with the evaluation of G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall that he is "a damn smart politician," and perhaps the most politically promising member...
...both parents, but all come from homes that can no longer take care of them. Some are the sons and daughters of alcoholics and criminals ; others have been juvenile delinquents; all arrive lost and afraid. For these, Graham offers no elaborate psychiatric routine. Its whole approach is so straightforward and simple as to make a social worker despair. "The average kid who's had the rug pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems...