Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bonn flew Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson to talk like a Dutch uncle to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, demanding that the prosperous West Germans help stop the steady drain of U.S. gold reserves, which last week dipped below $18 billion for the first time since 1940. Anderson's major demand was that Adenauer shoulder the costs of keeping U.S. troops in West Germany-some $600 million per year. The Germans refused, making some promising counteroffers (see FOREIGN NEWS), but under the rigid terms set by Anderson himself the mission had to be counted a failure-for the moment, at least...
...mannered "Beef" Hoffman turned to his Methodist pastor and asked for a prayer. "This procedure may be a bit unusual," he remarked, "but it is never out of place." A Republican, Hoffman was born in New Jersey, but spent his long career as a trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words. Judge Hoffman ruled in case after case that Virginia's much-imitated pupil-placement system-a Governor-appointed state board with sweeping...
...accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon and a corps of 24 advisers, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson had only one thought in mind. Come hell or high water, he was determined to jar the West Germans into parting with enough Deutsche Mark to make a major dent in the increasing deficit (an estimated $4 billion for 1960) in the U.S.'s international balance of payments. Brushing aside the cautionary briefings of U.S. diplomats on the spot, Anderson confronted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard with a peremptory demand that Bonn take...
...lady is retching and dying of malnutrition in the gutter just out of earshot of the splendid mansion; the contrast is caught by a Crimson photographer, and the resulting photograph--a major work of proletarian art in its own right--causes a scandal which rocks the very foundations of a sick, complacent social order. No news story could have done this. No letter to the Alumni Bulletin or notice in the University Gazette would have done this. Only a Crimson photograph...
...fact is the panels deal with a single large issue (economic development, foreign policy, or national and regional aspirations) and the inter-regional ramifications of the question. Since only three panelists could be invited from each area, the three chosen had to be representative of the major population and interest groups. Finally, it was always the intention of the Committee to direct panel discussion toward common goals, attitudes, and problems rather than toward particular conflicts. These considerations prompted the Committee to make the decision that...