Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacking Ike on monetary policy, Bob Kerr was just being Bob Kerr. But the impunity with which he made the attack-Homer Capehart alone accused him of bad taste rather than inaccuracy-highlighted a new congressional attitude toward Dwight Eisenhower. On strictly domestic issues-the budget, civil rights, etc.-the President has lost, or has forsworn, his political leverage despite his personal popularity on and off Capitol Hill. Congress' discovery: six months through his second term, he need no longer be feared, can often be ignored, occasionally flouted without fear of political reprisal...
Cockiness for Caution. Congress' who-cares sentiment toward Ike-the-domestic-leader blossomed during the "hair-curling" Humphrey flap and the budget fight last February, as the White House delayed overlong in taking a firm stand for Administration policies (TIME, April 22). The House, including many a Republican outside the party's Old Guard, happily zeroed in on one of Eisenhower's favorite projects, the U.S. Information Agency, sliced its budget by half. The Senate crippled the Administration farm program (but rallied remarkably when Ike stood and fought for foreign...
...budget goal of $36 billion by about $2.4 billion, was heading on toward an annual spending rate of $42 billion...
...heirs is Farbwerke Hoechst near Frankfurt, whose moving force is energetic Board Chairman Karl Winnacker, 53, a wartime Farben plant manager. Hoechst's sales-antibiotics, synthetic fibers, cellophane and oxygen-rocketed 17% last year to $355 million. Now the company is taking German industry's first steps toward harnessing the atom. It operates a nuclear research laboratory outside Frankfurt and is building a heavy-water plant (annual capacity: six tons) that will be among Europe's biggest when completed this year. Last week, with Atomic Energy Commission approval. North American Aviation Inc. sent to Hoechst the final...
...common roots of Judaism and Christianity ("For me, it is one culture and one civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among my own people has been too much of a handicap for me to work"), eventually (1956) settled in Israel, where, he said, he found peace of mind...