Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many reasons for being on the cover of TIME, but, in essence, they all come down to one word -NEWS. Last week's cover on Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss came in the midst of the noisily newsy controversy over his confirmation. The story was eagerly awaited in Washington - partly for the effect it could have on the Senate vote. That vote has not yet been taken, but the story's principals - Secretary Strauss and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson - agree, from their widely differing points of view, the story was fair, and squared with the issues...
...cuff address to a national conference on civil rights in Washington, the President said that to settle the civil rights problem, one must have "those feelings of compassion, consideration and justice that derive from our concepts of moral law. I say moral law rather than statutory law because I happen to be one of those people who has very little faith in the ability of statutory law to change the human heart, or to eliminate prejudice . . . The important thing is that we go ahead, that we make progress. This does not necessarily mean revolution. In my mind, it means evolution...
...rival antiaircraft missiles, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc. The solution satisfied hardly anyone, and the grumbles both from Capitol Hill and the Pentagon reflected an increasingly apparent fact: for Neil Hosler McElroy, sometime president of Procter & Gamble, one of the longest of all Washington honeymoons is ending...
...year, he seemed distressingly unfamiliar with important details of one of the world's most complex jobs, made several inept slips, e.g., he said the first U.S. ICBMs would be operational in July 1959, when in fact the target date was January 1960. Moreover, McElroy undermined his own Washington prestige by confirming rumors that he planned to leave his $25,000-a-year post in late 1959 or early 1960 and go back to Procter & Gamble, where he earned $285,000 a year, plus hefty fringe benefits...