Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great, fanlike sweep of DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar that stretches for 9,000 miles across land and sea to guard the Arctic approaches to North America, there is still one glaring and worrisome gap: the unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will...
...means what he says about not running-Hubert Humphrey. Key Humphrey players, who worked out smoothly at the Midwest Democratic rally in Milwaukee last fortnight: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, United Auto Workers' Political Operative Harvey Kitzman ("The union's support is going to Humphrey"), and Washington Lawyer James Rowe, great and good friend of I-Am-Not-a-Candidate Lyndon Johnson of Texas...
First major U.S. city to count more Negroes than whites in its population: Washington, D.C.* Latest estimate by the city's health department: 438,000 Negroes (53%) and 387,000 whites (47%), a shift from 187,000 Negroes (28%) and 474,000 whites (72%) in 1940. Since today's Negro school-age population outnumbers whites 2 to 1, while whites concentrate in the middle and upper age brackets, the Negro majority will rise even higher in the next ten years...
...spend federal staff allowances with cheery abandon. Reported Scripps-Howard Newshawk Vance Trimble (TIME, March 16): The Bronx's Buckley pays $38,497 a year to eight political followers in New York City who work part time on Buckley business, mostly in their own homes. Buckley's Washington office is staffed by only two people, both paid not out of his staff allowance, but from funds of the House Public Works Committee, of which he is chairman. The committee also pays salaries to two other Buckley staffers in New York, bringing the total annual Government payroll for Buckley...
...airspace was crowded with the comings and goings of worried diplomats. Of them all, none was so busy as Britain's indefatigable Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who in the space of three weeks had visited Moscow, Paris and Bonn, and this week was scheduled to go to Washington and Ottawa as well...