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Major General Laurence Carbee Craigie, 49, Vice Commander, Far East Air Forces, still a first-class pilot and one of the Air Force's ablest diplomats in ironing out interservice troubles...
Major General Paik Sun Yup, 32, Commander, Republic of Korea I Corps, was born in Pyongyang and was graduated from the Japanese Military Academy in Manchuria (1941). Served as a lieutenant with the Japanese army in China in World War II. He is considered one of Korea's ablest field commanders, is also a fluent linguist (Japanese, Chinese, English and Korean...
...Murphy saw the figure rise to $300,000; in 1950, to $357,000; and in 1951, to $700,-000. He persuaded the legislature to give him the unprecedented sum of $3,800,000 to expand the school and its hospital. He raised faculty salaries all around, went after the ablest young men he could find for his staff...
...been made by trustee formula did not soothe faculty feelings. Why, the faculty wanted to know, were the top professors not consulted? Why did the cuts have to be so drastic? Why had Wagner stuck by the formula when he knew that he was eliminating some of his ablest and most popular...
Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, among the first French generals to join the Allied forces in North Africa, was one of the Allies' ablest combat commanders (Tunisia and Italy) in World War II. Said he, as he landed at Casablanca in 1947: "Morocco has a right to be independent. That is normal. But independence must wait until Morocco is ready." His plan for readying Morocco: i) a school to train Moroccan administrators, 2)3 council including members of the Moroccan Chamber of Commerce to advise the French on budget matters, 3) a delegation from the viziers to sit with...