Word: turnabout
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...Just a few weeks before, President Eisenhower, asked at his press conference if he might name a special White House scientific adviser, replied: "I hadn't thought of that." Last week he not only appointed such an adviser but gave him far-reaching powers. Indeed, the turnabout irrevocably set the U.S. on a new course in nearly all defense fields...
What caused the Pentagon's turnabout was a decision by the Administration to pay out an additional $400 million for defense programs in the second quarter of fiscal 1958 and to give $300 million of it to the Air Force. It had little alternative. Despite all economies, the Defense Department spent $10.3 billion in the first fiscal quarter, leaving only $9.8 billion for the second three months. Since program stretchouts are slow to take hold, this would have meant either 1) enormous cuts to bring the budget back into line by the end of the second quarter-something military...
...dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists in the Syrian government. In an abject turnabout, President Kuwatly hastily got off a message begging Saud to withdraw his offer...
Equally important was the party turnabout on foreign policy. In the 85th Congress it was the Democrats, who have long made internationalism an article of faith, who stalled the Eisenhower Doctrine and gutted foreign aid. And it was the Republicans, long associated in the public mind with isolationism, who stood with the President in his fight for free-world security...
Bastardized. It was no use: a majority of Democrats defeated a majority of Republicans in beating down amendments seeking the restoration of foreign-aid funds. Indeed, such was the party turnabout that Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, a Democrat who remained loyal to foreign aid, berated his fellow Democrats for deserting their own program. ''This is your baby,'' thundered Flood. "Do you make this a bastard child...