Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homeward bound from Washington last week were two top Administration officials, both disappointed men. One was Navy Secretary Thomas S. (for Sovereign) Gates Jr., 52, already marked down in Navy legend as the best Secretary since the late James Forrestal. The other was James H. (for Hopkins) Smith Jr., 49, highly respected in the State Department for his two-year stint as International
Cooperation administrator. In the curious fashion of Washington politics, the double disappointments were intertwined...
Then Dick Neuberger, who for five months had been under surgical and cobalt radiation treatment for cancer, prepared to resume Senate duties in Washington. Senator Neuberger, 46, had a new, sober cause in his life-legislation for medical research. "No one really grows up," explained he, "until he realizes...
...Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, and Illinois' veteran National Committeeman Jack Arvey. In ragged unison the powerful Democratic old pros were warming up for a free-for-all fight at the next full meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. Subject of fight: the National Committee's site-selection committee and its choice of Los Angeles as the place for next year's convention (TIME...
...Special Care. Five other Almond-locked Norfolk schools peacefully opened their doors to 5,126 whites and twelve Negro pupils. Just as peaceful was the enrollment of four Negro seventh-graders at Stratford Junior High in Arlington, Virginia-side Washington suburb. Wrote the editors of the Stratford school paper Signpost: "We have noticed that most of our classmates and friends don't especially care whether Negroes enter Stratford...