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...could not be handled properly without a staff strong enough to keep track of, and ride herd on, the dozens of governmental departments and agencies with their divergent interests. But if each staff member reported only to the President, the result would be merely the added complication of warring liaison men. In today's White House organization, the best roads to the President lead through Sherman Adams (see chart). The Limited Power. Adams has immense power, to the extent that New York Timesman James Reston, studying the state of the nation during the period of the President...
...Manhattan, Father Tuck and Prince Rainier were off on an eight-week tour that will include an appointment with President Eisenhower, Christmas in Delaware, and introductions to eligible girls from California to Texas (as a 2nd lieutenant in the French army in World War II, Rainier served as a liaison officer with the Texas 36th Infantry Division). Like the Monégasques, Father Tuck fervently hopes that he will be singing a royal nuptial Mass soon, and that Monaco will live happily ever after. He is homesick for Delaware and weary of the royal routine. "I'd like...
...Communism. When the U.N. delegates first went to the Kaesong teahouse where the armistice negotiations took place, they casually took the north side of the table (unaware of the Oriental convention that the victor faces south), and so dismayed the face-conscious enemy that "the Communist liaison officer actually stuttered." Thereafter the U.N. faced north. Another fact was the simple proposition that almost half of the Red prisoners did not want to go home. Eighteen months were consumed in negotiations during which the Reds attempted to digest this fact, or disguise it by allegations ("torture, massacre"), and to produce...
...Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan flew to Bagdad for the first Northern Tier meeting under the new Bagdad Pact. Britain has formally linked itself with Iraq, Iran and Pakistan in the pact. Though not a member, the U.S. showed its support by sending as "military and political liaison" Admiral John H. Cassady and Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar Gallman...
Clarifying the proposal that was announced Thursday, the spokesman--an officer of Selective Service's Legislative Liaison and Public Information Bureau--emphasized that the revision would not involve an actual deferment of fathers, such as existed until the summer of 1953. Under the new plan draft boards would taken younger men and husbands without children before they took fathers and men over 26, but they would still take men in the latter categories eventually, the spokesman explained...