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...basketful of problems awaits Joe Dodge. Differences of approach among Dulles, Stassen, Humphrey and others have stalled Eisenhower's none-too-vigorous past efforts to construct a clear-cut U.S. economic policy for the world (TIME, Dec. 13). Dodge would not go back into the Washington snake pit if he was not convinced that this time Ike is determined to get his foreign economic program through Congress-a task that must begin with agreement inside the Administration...
...howling, skin-blasting roar." Along with such recherche lore. Author Murchie offers straightforward tips on air navigation to those who may feel the need of them. At his infrequent but embarrassing worst, he plays the Whitman-cum-Thomas Wolfe of the skyways: "I winnow the meager facts, seeking to construct truth only from the clean kernels. I am a human lodestone-the homing pigeon of mankind." The Book-of-the-Month Club judges have un-cooped him for December...
...first part of the Mendes plan consisted of deflating illusions and facing facts. This is the story of Indo-China, and the story of EDC. The past has now been liquidated. The new regime must construct the future. The second stage opens with Mendès' economic plan. Two of its aims have top priority...
...magnetism. In the eight weeks since partition, some 250,000 Vietnamese have already chosen to leave their homes in the Communist north for free Viet Nam-a far higher number than anyone expected. Of these, the U.S. Navy has transported 110,000. Harold Stassen's FOA is helping construct 125 emergency villages to house the new settlers...
...built a distinguished career in river control. After graduating 24th in his class ('24) at West Point, he studied engineering at the University of California and at Berlin's Technical University, got his doctorate in Berlin in 1929. The next year he was selected to design and construct the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station at Vicksburg, Miss. Vogel did some of the most important work of his life at Vicksburg, on his knees with a grapefruit knife in his hand, digging out the first scale models of American rivers. He recalls that many top engineers ridiculed the project...