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...third consecutive Wednesday, a group of Garden Street legislators yesterday retired behind a Lace Curtain to discuss highly classified material. Reporters were barred from news coverage of the strictly confidential topics. Participants were sworn to secrecy about the proceedings of the star chamber sessions...
Even when he went to the Bundestag to be sworn in for his third term as Chancellor, der Alte did not have his Cabinet list ready. The problem was pfennig-pinching Fritz Schäffer. As Minister of Finance in the old Cabinet, Schäffer had consistently resisted the plans of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard to ease taxes to produce more investment capital; he had also refused to release budget money for rearmament...
...Administration moved swiftly in other directions. The National Security Council met with a portentous array of high administrative brass and came to a quick conclusion. As a result, Dwight Eisenhower ordered an urgent and immediate review of the nation's missile program by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, just sworn into office the day before...
When ebullient, party-loving Hussein S. Suhrawardy was sworn in as Pakistan's fifth Prime Minister last year (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956), he was asked whether he thought Pakistan's most important problem was famine or foreign policy. "Idiot!': replied the Prime Minister. "Political stability. That's the biggest problem...
...Ballplayer. Though Smith has spoken his views on many things, he has said little on foreign affairs; and the first thing reporters asked the beaming Smith after he was sworn in was his general views on foreign policy. As Prime Minister Diefenbaker watched anxiously, Smith replied: "Let me tell you a story. Charlie Comiskey of the White Sox brought a young pitcher up from the minors, sent him to the mound, and saw this young fellow's first three pitches blasted from the park. Comiskey went out to the catcher and asked: 'What...