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Charles Brannan, 46, is one of those Cabinet rarities, a career public servant who worked to the top of his department (another: Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson). After two years in the job, Brannan still seems to Washington more the hardworking, second-level Washington bureaucrat than the traditional Cabinet member. His relations with the White House are efficiently firm-he confers with the President a couple of times a week, usually lunches with him on Mondays. But the Secretary of Agriculture has never plunged into the panoply of Cabinet rank, nor has he been taken into the circle of cronies...
Actually, most of them are feeling just the opposite. Reason: while gifts are at an unprecedented level, so are expenses-and expenses have outrun income. Out of 630 private colleges and universities, the New York Times found in a survey recently, one in five are running deficits. Yale University's deficit is nearly $1,000,000, Columbia University's is $745,000, Johns Hopkins' is an estimated...
...points: 1) periodic Security Council meetings on a foreign-minister level, 2) atomic control, 3) disarmament, 4) a U.N. police force, 5) acceptance of all 14 nations* now awaiting admission to U.N., 6) technical aid for backward countries, 7) greater use of U.N.'s specialized agencies, 8) vigorous pressing of the U.N. program for human rights, 9) advancement of dependent peoples, 10) further development of international...
...less certain value were statements which Ronnie based chiefly on hearsay. Samples: the Huks are in regular radio contact with Peking; the Philippine Communist Party is masterminded by three unnamed but top-level officials in Quirino's government...
Lindseth increased C.E.I.'s capacity to 984,000 kilowatts, almost double its prewar level. Last week, just before he left Cleveland for the convention, Lindseth announced that C.E.I. would double its capacity again, with a new $100 million, 1,000,000-kilowatt installation, scheduled for completion after...