Word: truman
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...direct hit. In six other shots the Army said Nike scored shrapnel hits, claimed "kills" in each case. One Nike suffered an electronic brain storm and blew itself up. * Won after Leviero was the recipient of some other leaked documents: the notes of the Wake Island conference between Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur...
...when they attack the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy. But behind the front, two Democratic foreign-policy specialists have been preparing more solid positions for the party-and with the guns pointing different ways. The specialists are: 1) George F. Kennan, 52, author of the postwar policy of containment, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Moscow (1952-53), and Adlai Stevenson's foreign-policy adviser; 2) New York's Governor Averell Harriman, 64, Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Moscow (1943-46), one of the sharpest forecasters of Russian attitudes and intentions during and after World...
...Truman party packed bags, pressed crisp new U.S. bills into the porter's hands, and prepared to motor north to Assisi, Venice and Florence, correspondents cornered him a final time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...
John Monroe Johnson, 78, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1950, retired. "Steamboat" Johnson was appointed to the regulatory agency by President Roosevelt in 1940, won President Truman's blessing after he refused to step down at the mandatory retirement age of 70. A civil engineer, Johnson served as a sergeant in the Spanish-American War, was chief engineer in the Rainbow Division in France during World War I. He went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, later earned a reputation as one of the slow-moving ICC's most effective members...
...forays from Rome's Hassler Hotel (where the Trumans were lodged in the Eisenhower Suite), he saw the ancient sights, guided by TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, filling in as host for ailing Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call...