Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original Eisenhower Cabinet,* Massachusetts Manufacturer Sinclair Weeks was a voice of oldfashioned, pre-Eisenhower Republicanism. But he grew in the job. A deep-dyed member of the old school that considered tariff protectionism a fundamental GOPrinciple, he became Washington's most improbable convert to freer trade, led this year's winning Administration fight to wring a broadened reciprocal-trade bill out of a reluctant Congress...
...investigators left quietly. But in Washington, the CRC met and unanimously voted to hold hearings in Montgomery next month on voting discrimination in various Alabama counties, not just Macon. Since CRC's six members include a Virginian, a Texan and a Floridian, the unanimity was striking. Between the lines of its announcement, CRC hinted that it might, if necessary, use its statutory subpoena power to make balky registrars open up their files...
...week visit last week came Her Majesty Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes. Washington officialdom knew what to expect from the vivacious, curly-haired Queen; she had already made herself a big hit on her first trip to the U.S. five years ago. Sure enough, the lively Frederika danced into the capital with smiling, informal grace and two French poodles (Topsy and Toodles). With her were two of her three children: Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta, 18, and Princess Sophia, 20. Explained Frederika: King Paul stayed home to look after the country, and Princess Irene, 16, stayed home to look...
...most fascinating fact about these staggering figures, which were leaked to foreign correspondents, was that they did not appear in the Soviet press. Soviet specialists in Washington think that the targeted growth can be achieved only by a new emphasis on heavy industry, during which the consumer will not get less than he has been getting-he may perhaps get even a little more-but less than he has been promised. They conclude that reasons of international power have prevailed over consumer goods, and Khrushchev believes he can get away with it because the Russian consumer at least has more...
Since seizing power 13 months ago, Strongman Sarit has spent most of his time abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government...