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...delegates had dispersed into committees to thresh out compromises when a U.S. Congressman from Pittsburgh, James G. Fulton, 51, strolled into the bar at conference headquarters, the luxurious Quitandinha Hotel, and gathered a group of reporters around him. "I want to talk about financial aid from my country to Latin America," he announced quietly. What Fulton talked about, then and later, went off like a land mine under the official U.S. policy and its main author, George Humphrey...
Cameras in the Sky. Meanwhile, the helicopters of 1953 are finding new and increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...
...served if he and Ike keep their disagreements to themselves. Last week Taft was discreetly campaigning for the job of Senate majority leader when Congress convenes on Jan. 3. His reason: the majority leader maintains hour-by-hour contact with the White House, is in the best position to thresh out policy arguments with the President before policies are announced...
Simple Tools. After Holmes had won the farmers' confidence, he took the next step: teaching them how to use improved, but still simple toolse.g., turning plows and five-tooth cultivators. A simple form of thresher introduced by Holmes made it possible for his farmers to thresh their wheat crops in three days instead of ten. The seven days saved allowed many farmers to plow their land for the next crop before the soil under the wheat stubble got too hard...
Before he ever became a college president, Dwight D. Eisenhower made up his mind about one thing the U.S. needed: a system for getting the best of the nation's brains-scholars and men of affairs-regularly around a conference table to thresh their way to agreement on the nation's most pressing public questions. Last week Eisenhower announced that he was ready to begin. He called his project "The American Assembly." He also called it "the most important step I have taken as president of Columbia University...