Word: tooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting ready for foreign problems to come. He conferred with Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans on next fiscal year's $81 billion budget, presided over a meeting of the National Security Council on next fiscal year's $41 billion defense budget. He took time out to reassure NATO's visiting Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of the U.S.'s strong support for NATO, to reassure the Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Boss Vasily Emelyanov (see SCIENCE) of his hopes for a peaceful atomic future. He got a personal report from...
Weather in the Mountain. Last month Pilot Draper and his crew-as well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
...Chicago Investment Broker Harold Lewis, chairman of the anti-integration committee at the village mass meeting. "But in essence they are trying to force integration down the throats of the people of Deerfield, and we are resentful. We have an obligation to other communities to fight." Merchandiser Morris Courington took the mike. "Some shyster came around and offered us about half what our house is worth. We called the real estate company, and they wouldn't even accept our listing." Mrs. Robert Ettinger, an engineer's wife, who moved over from Evanston after Negroes moved into the neighborhood...
...against the 50 divisions that the Soviets can hurl against Europe on short notice. No matter how low NATO planners set the sights, each year member countries manage to evade filling the targets. Only 21 NATO divisions exist, even on paper, along the West's front line. It took a Frenchman, General Jean-Etienne Valluy, 60, NATO's Commanding General of Allied Forces, Central Europe, to point out last week that "apart perhaps from the U.S. and Canada," many NATO members "have not kept their promises," are guilty of "moral disengagement." If this continues, he added, "General Norstad...
Last week, in the seaside resort of Blackpool, its beaches deserted by all but the sea gulls, its skies greyed over, some 2,000 Laborites assembled gloomily for Gaitskell's promised post-election "inquest." From the outset, Hugh Gaitskell took the offensive: Labor must drop its demands for nationalization or "be content to remain in permanent opposition...