Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the nation's chief foreign policy officer on the sidelines-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred in his hospital suite with his top aides and with President Eisenhower, but he left the job of running the State Department to Acting Secretary Christian Herter-State made the same straightforward reply to Khrushchev that it would have made if Dulles had been at his desk. The U.S., said Press Officer Lincoln White, is still awaiting a "reasoned reply" to its note suggesting a foreign ministers' conference. And in a display of calm decision in action, Washington ordered...
...Convention. Hours after the fourth cable break, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU HAVE CUT THE CABLE FOUR TIMES: STOP FISHING HERE AND GO SOUTH. The trawler moved a few miles. Burke's Judge Advocate General, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, then made a precedent-setting proposal: Send a Navy party aboard the Russian ship. Lawyer Ward cited an international covenant, signed by Czarist...
Three men have establish a non-profit publishing house in Cambridge to serve writers who aim at a limited audience. Personal advertising and a low overhead will enable the firm to break even while distributing only "good books," according to Thomas A. Bledsoe, editor-in-chief of the new company...
...friendly windup to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's mission to Moscow attended the dispatch of Soviet notes to the Western Big Three and West Germany on these chief problems of the cold...
...ruckus began four years ago when acerbic John Gordon, 68, chief editor of the sensational Sunday Express (circ. 3.426,753), noticed that Graham Greene had listed Lolita, then published by Olympia Press of Paris, as one of the best books of 1955. Gordon sent to Paris for a copy, pronounced it "about the filthiest book I've ever read...