Word: washington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral...
...vulnerable to direct and devastating attack." The investigators, operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns Hopkins University Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research. While their report followed the doom-criers' pattern of giving the Communists a monopoly on perfection and the U.S. a monopoly on faults, it nonetheless added up to a tough-minded analysis of U.S. defense problems, here and to come...
...pros against the people." In other words, he must beguile the Republican-in-the-street-and the independent voter -in order to win over the professional Republicans, now massively lined up behind Vice President Richard Nixon. Although Rockefeller is still officially undecided whether to run, the word in Washington is that he is already too deeply committed to his new staffers and political supporters to back away from a fight...
...unique circumstances of Antarctica did not dampen enthusiasm to apply the treaty's principles elsewhere. Said the Russians in a statement issued by the Soviet embassy in Washington: "The significance of this agreement goes beyond the limits of Antarctica and can be a good example for adopting similar decisions in respect to other regions of the globe." Australia's Ambassador Howard Beale raised the intriguing possibility that the treaty might serve as a model for another uninhabited, potentially disputed region: "the outer reaches of space...
Last week President Eisenhower confronted the growing controversy at his press conference in Washington. Said Ike: "I personally am ready each morning to take an oath that I am not a Communist and that I am loyal to the United States. I think, however, that when we begin to single out any group of citizens and say, 'This is a matter of legal compulsion,' I can see why they are resentful...