Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inept handling of the U.S. space program puts this nation at the most serious disadvantage it has yet experienced in the cold war, and it is long overdue that the Eisenhower Administration receive the public reprimand it deserves for this inexcusable situation. Your article on the subject is an excellent study; may Washington take heed...
...Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller dropped by the White House for an hour-long chat with President Eisenhower. Officially, the two discussed civil defense but. Rocky admitted, they had got around to the subject of politics. Rockefeller grinningly refused to tell anything more, but word soon leaked out that he had received Ike's assurances of detached neutrality in the event of a Rockefeller-Nixon battle for the G.O.P. nomination. ¶ Adlai Stevenson's ghostly candidacy got a blunt no-confidence vote...
...usual, to make a show of debate, delegates were allowed to nitpick a few details. Thus a Moscow bank clerk complained that the Ministry of Culture was hoarding quantities of furniture, including 224 clocks. Then delegates unanimously approved both the budget and the 1960 plan. After all, everything was subject to change anyway: last year's plan was changed 37 times, and the chief planner himself was replaced...
...ships to look for Cuban Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who dis appeared in a light plane over central Cuba. The note also "categorically rejected" a favorite Castro myth - that the U.S. press is "engaged in a deliberate campaign to misrepresent and discredit the Government of Cuba." While on the subject of controlling Castro-hating exiles in the U.S., the State Department delivered a stinging lecture on democracy: "Persons under the juris diction of the United States cannot be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned or interfered with." The note made clear that the U.S. shares and supports "the hopes of the Cuban people...
MERGER PROPOSAL has been approved by directors of photographic equipment maker Bell & Howell (1958 sales: $59 million). Plan, subject to stockholder approval, calls...