Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fresher Faces. If Kennedy next week becomes the youngest President-elect in history, he will move on Washington like an arrow. Already Clark Clifford, an old White House hand from the days of Truman, is at work on a what-to-do program for the transition months between election and inauguration. Plans are under way for a complete overhaul of the executive branch: Clifford has a list of 204 top jobs that would be filled by Dec. i, another 406 to be filled by Jan. 1. Clifford is working closely with the Brookings Institution on a table of organization patterned...
...There is no doubt that a Kennedy Administration would start off with a national roller-coaster ride across the New Frontier. Kennedy is well aware of the political grace period-he thinks it is about 90 days-for a new Administration, plans to move fast, with a far-reaching program of social and economic legislation at home and some bold ventures in the field of foreign policy and national defense. His first concern is to beef up and streamline the armed forces. And, sidestepping the nations of Western Europe, he gives his highest foreign policy priority to aid programs...
...more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have greater influence over an almost certainly Democratic Congress. "We believe that with the prestige of an election victory, Mr. Kennedy could override reactionary Southern opposition within his own party and consolidate an effective majority behind a constructive program . . . The Democratic Party's platform goes far beyond the Republican platform in making promises of large spending. Yet it calls at this time for 'no increase in present tax rates.' This is not a reassuring prospect, since it involves the hazards of inflation ... In this election...
...cooperate fully with the U.N. "Then get the army off the streets," snapped India's General Inder Jit Rikhye, Dayal's military adviser. Meekly, Mobutu agreed to withdraw most of his troops to army headquarters outside the city, where the U.N. planned an intensive training program to inject some discipline into its ranks. But the U.N. let him keep his soldiers around Patrice Lumumba's house and at the radio station, and, for some reason, agreed to let Mobutu's soldiers take over guard duty at the national arsenal...
...Assembly in 1945, joined forces with the Communists, but broke with them in 1950. He eventually parlayed his role as an African spokesman into a three-year succession of Cabinet posts in Paris, beginning in 1956. For the Ivory Coast, Houphouet-Boigny has wangled from France an ambitious aid program ($16.5 million this year). As a result, Abidjan is completely electrified and may be the only city in Africa where every dwelling has running water...