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...Rebuilt Cabinet. No President in history has given more attention to efficient organization and delegation of work in the executive branch. Under the Eisenhower reorganization, all major decisions funnel up to the President through a whole chart of special committees, boards and councils* that screen policy ideas. At the top are the NSC and the Cabinet. Matters of defense strategy move up through the NSC, broad questions of national policy in all fields by way of the Cabinet. When a problem reaches the President's desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration...
...President began to take an alert interest in the outside world. When Press Secretary James Hagerty popped in for a brief visit, Ike asked him how the affairs of the nation were going. "Just fine, Mr. President," said Hagerty. "Everything is fine." Items on the presidential chart...
...American brass, officially opened newly restored Washington Old Hall, 800-year-old home of the ancestors of George Washington. He was suddenly confronted by a prim, grey-haired gatecrasher. The uninvited guest: Gary Lady Schuster, 88, widow of a titled physics professor. Her ticket of admission: a lineage chart showing her direct descent from John Washington, the first President's great-grandfather, who sailed to America in 1657. Offering a glad hand, Ambassador Aldrich glowed: "A Washington? Welcome home...
...First Days. After the first few hours, the general location of the infarct (the damaged area resulting from loss of circulation) can be determined by use of the electrocardiograph (see chart). Although the electrocardiograph frequently fails to detect the atherosclerosis (narrowing of the coronary arteries) that precedes a thrombosis, it can accurately trace the healing process as a scar forms in the damaged area of the heart...
...that remains of Bellame and his crew is on one of the 70,000 maps which form Widener's collection. On a chart drawn by a Boston cartographer rests this conclusion: ". . . I came through with a whale boat being ordered bye Government to look after Pirate Ship Whido Bellame Commandr. . . cast away 26 of April 1717 where I buried One Hundred and Two Men Drowned." An occasional doubloon from Bellame's hoard is still washed up on the sands...