Word: watchdog
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...Excellent Condition." There was satisfying evidence of work done. The President appointed an eight-man watchdog committee, headed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr., to examine and report on the work of the U.S. intelligence agencies. He sent to Congress a message proposing a fiveyear, $2 billion federal aid program for public-school construction. He asked Congress to appropriate $60 million for flood relief. He accepted the resignation of Treasury Under Secretary H. Chapman Rose, who is returning to his Cleveland law practice. He welcomed back Aide Bernard Shanley, who had left the White House staff...
Randolph takes on all comers. When most dailies ignored his speeches attacking "the river of pornography" in the press, he printed the talks in a shilling pamphlet called "What I Said About the Press." Later he stung the Press Council, the British newspapers' own watchdog on press ethics, into scolding Daily Sketch Editor Herbert Gunn for changing an adverse criticism of a movie that his wife helped make into a favorable review. By then Randolph was busily battling the trade weekly, World's Press News for suppressing the story of that dispute because, wrote Randolph, its boss...
...concentrated at the beginning and end of the hour, or during "natural breaks" in the program. No sponsor may pick his own show: his sales message must be rotated in different spots according to the convenience of the program companies who rent TV facilities from the government's watchdog Independent Television Authority. This has caused some heartburn among admen. Groaned one: "Suppose a cigaret commercial gets placed next to a discussion of lung cancer...
...rocket-powered Bell X-1A was fastened in its perch on the belly of its B-29 mother ship, and carried 30,000 ft. for a series of routine rolls, climbs and pushups above California's Mojave Desert. As usual, a Sabre jet fighter flew behind as a watchdog "chase" plane...
...Wrong. The week's first witness was Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board, watchdog of the nation's credit and onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange. Previous witnesses, notably Harvard's Galbraith, had testified that margin requirements should be raised, perhaps as high as 100%. Did Martin agree? He did not, since credit denied to the market would just move into other fields...