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...last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...Administration muddled along spending about $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistics missilery (while a lot of the progress was made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, paying for experiments on the Atlas ICBM out of its own pocket). Moreover, Chrysler's able Keller, far from being a czar, was an "appraiser" of the missile program, did his able job within that limited authority...
Arthur Godfrey, for this reason, became a minor czar of the TV world, because--in the words of one advertising executive--"He can sell 'em anything." The biggest hit song this year is "You'll wonder where the yellow went...
...would not, Hynek emphasized, "be a czar or a dictator of science, but someone to advise the president and through whom scientists could be heard...
...posh 410 Restaurant sat some of the top men in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, quietly talking strategy. At one table, the comments were mixed with uneasy hope and stifled distress. There sat two men who had dared to come out against arrogant, front-running Midwest Teamster Czar James Riddle Hoffa, who claimed that he would win the brotherhood's presidency at the quinquennial convention in Miami Beach, Fla. Sept. 30. Tom Hickey, longtime New York Teamster enemy of Hoffa, was one; the other was Tom Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of a milkwagon local in Chicago. At the next table...