Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Government committees are appointed to delay action. Some are appointed to build up support for a course of action already agreed on. But when Dwight Eisenhower put onetime Under Secretary of the Army William H. Draper Jr. in charge of a committee last November to survey the vast U.S. foreign-aid program, the roll call of blue-ribbon committee members * made it clear that the President wanted hard answers. Last week in the Draper committee's preliminary report, he got three that nobody quite expected. Said the committee...
...government had taken eight weeks to lay its case, with an endless parade of evidence that Rojas in office had acquired cash, cattle, and "one-thousandth of all the vast land area of Colombia." Nothing was forgotten-not even a 1936 army fitness report on Major Rojas: "His business instincts carry him to the point of sordidness. Temperament: teetotaler. Conduct: a ladies...
...term is in fact an almost exact opposite of Western Man in Toynbee's sense. In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden...
...Murphy to the Mexican iron-mining town of Durango (pop. 59,500) to film The Unforgiven and save $600,000 (in Mexico, an Indian with horse costs $2 a day against $40 in Hollywood). Now Huston stands to spend an extra $1,000,000-the price of maintaining a vast army of cows and cowboys for a month more than expected...
Service at Cost. In a further move to forestall socialized medicine, Skutt volunteered Mutual's vast and efficient claims-handling service "at cost" to the Defense Department to handle claims for servicemen's dependents in 17 states. Last year Mutual processed more than 125,000 such claims for an average cost of $1.20 apiece. Says Skutt: "Many in business criticize the Government because it gets into the realm of private enterprise. Then when the Government asks business to take over, they are busy looking out the window...