Word: problem
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...Take Over. The key problem is that the U.S.-with 2,380,475 federal employees, a $77 billion annual budget, and a cold war on its hands-has no constitutional machinery for transferring power from one administration to another. To smooth the way, a Brookings team set up liaison with Clark Clifford, onetime counsel for Harry Truman, representing Kennedy, and Brigadier General Robert E. Cushman Jr., speaking for Nixon. Advised by a 14-man committee headed by former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the Brookings team has interviewed some 60 top-level veterans of changeovers. Last week their accumulated...
...Sympathy. Such detailed planning was unknown as recently as 1952. Despite Truman's budget invitation, his relations with Eisenhower were cold, and the old problem of "communications" between administrations was not solved. Still, the days have long passed when the outgoing President merely invited his successor in for a quiet White House tea on inauguration eve. That ritual ended in 1933, when F.D.R., calling at the White House, roiled Hoover's feelings by suggesting that the President would probably be too busy to return the call. Snapped Hoover: "Mr. Roosevelt, you'll learn pretty soon that...
...current international gold crisis has made the problem increasingly critical. The disproportionate U.S. contribution to Western defense and foreign aid is a major part of the gold exodus that has lowered U.S. bullion reserves from $24 billion in 1948 to $18.5 billion today. In September, U.S. officials spoke bluntly to Bonn's visiting Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But the real holdout appears to be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower himself has private- ly written Adenauer asking for more German help. Later this month, both Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon will travel...
...frequent presence in fecal matter indicate that it may actually be an enterovirus -one of a group of particularly tiny viruses (including polio) that are found in the human intestinal tract. Says the PHS's Dr. Leon Rosen: "Isolating the hepatitis virus is the No. 1 unsolved problem of contemporary virology...
...Once and Future King, T. H. White managed to darken the theme as gently as the coming of evening. White had 677 pages and Lerner has but three hours. In Camelot, Lerner moves from comedy to tragedy as if he were blowing out a candle. Another problem is that Lerner seems to stop shy of the most tragic moments not only Arthur's death but Guinevere's trial and rescue, which, in the script as it stood last week, was only related in an awkward "standup oratorio." Perhaps L. & L.'s biggest problem is to find a way of telling...