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...impact on the world was not yet enough to answer Congressional criticisms. Nevertheless, Bill Benton and State hoped that Congress would recall a forgotten warning by ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes...
Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, who is fighting hard to get Congress' approval of a $31 million appropriation for his Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, had some news to report last week. A short-wave transmitter in Munich, which relays OIC broadcasts from the U.S. to Russia, had been sabotaged, causing the broadcasts to go to South America instead...
...damage was repaired, Benton said, and the broadcasts were now coming in better than ever in Moscow...
...recommendations up the line. This led to more concrete suggestions, if not more outright clarification. Present were such prominent folk as: Commission Chairman Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science and a younger, scholarly edition of General Ike; Assistant Secretary of State William Benton and his oldtime advertising partner, Chester Bowles; Donald M. Nelson (now of Hollywood), and Texas' witty historian Frank Dobie...
...even looking in) to join UNESCO. Orchid-draped Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, sprang what she herself called "a surprise"-that the National Commission shelve everything else and concentrate on reducing tensions between Russia and the U.S. Assistant Secretary Benton thought that wouldn't get far "without the cooperation of Russia...