Word: washington
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Acheson. Two days later, before an applauding group of NATO parliamentarians in Washington, Acheson implied that the Russians are interested principally in survival for Communists. "It is so easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to put the fagade of consent upon a defeat, then I think it is not something which should recommend itself to us . . . The essential thing is what you confer about-not whether you should confer but what you confer about." And what the U.S. is being asked to confer about...
...Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep defense spending...
...countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker's lap. On his return to Washington, he announced another economy: the second nuclear carrier (forced on the Navy by Congress) would be conventionally powered at a saving of $100 million...
BUREAUCRACY The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.) " 'What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done?' " intoned a worried cranberry merchant in Washington last week, taking Isaiah (5:4) for his text. Bible-quoting George C. P. Olson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the big growers' cooperative, thus put it straight to Arthur Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, who threw growers and housewives into a panic the week before with his declaration-based upon mouse tests-that cranberries tainted with the weed killer aminotriazole might cause cancer (TIME, Nov. 23). Said Olson...
...world's people. At the Rome meeting, British Historian Arnold Toynbee apocalyptically declared: "Sooner or later food production will reach its limit. And then, if population is still increasing, famine will do the execution that was done in the past by famine, pestilence and war combined." In Washington, NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium wanted the Western allies to do something useful about "the demand of the poor countries." He and others saw it as more than a problem of cold-war advantage. Recently Dwight Eisenhower remarked: "I believe that the problem of the underdeveloped nations...