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Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...
...more than 100 Congressmen and some 30 Senators went abroad, trailed by almost double that many clerks, aides, wives & children. One group of four went on going right around the world. While most went to Europe, there were also expeditions to the Far East, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, South and Central America. And five other lawmakers were going to Mexico-to study foot & mouth disease...
...final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called it the "blackout communique." It was known, however, that the "strategic concepts" had settled a long-standing controversy: they called for defense of the West on the Western European plain-not from behind the Pyrenees or the far side of the English Channel...
Hardly was the conflict over the Catholic unions settled when a new fight broke out-about the site of the new organization's headquarters. The T.U.C.'s Arthur Deakin fought for London. Some Americans favored almost any place but London. The squabble was a reflection of a deeper rift. The Americans considered the British T.U.C. leadership to be undynamic, bogged down in home worries and tied to the British Labor government's colonial and foreign policies...
Less than a month after his re-election to one of the country's toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he was really relaxing: when a small fire in his kitchenette brought 22 firemen and a police detail swarming to his hospital suite, Hizzoner slept through...