Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller quivered on his launching pad, preparing to take off this week on a breathtaking, "nonpolitical" swoosh through California and three other Western states, will make 35 public appearances in four days. In Albany, meanwhile, Rocky was assembling a high-octane, presidential-type staff of experts. In as his chief military adviser (officially his executive assistant in Albany) was General (ret.) Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, most recently Chief of Staff to NATO Chief General Lauris Norstad. For his growing platoon of speechwriters, Rockefeller signed on Hugh Morrow, onetime Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, more recently the busy strop...
...risks a pile-up from behind, the fourth driver in the left-turn line-and sometimes the fifth and sixth-rolls through the red toward a waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...
...each feels obliged to arm itself not only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
...merchants by relaxing their stiffest controls. They had brought a flood of newcomers (and new social problems) from Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran. And they had convinced the young and the newly arrived of their party's forward look by running such attractive, vigorous new candidates as former Army Chief Moshe Dayan, 44, former Ambassador to Washington Abba Eban, 44, former Defense Planner Shimon Peres...
...Syrian presidential palace in Damascus has been little more than a place where local politicians sip coffee while carrying out the long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's Nasser had sent up his own commander in chief, Abdel Hakim Amer, on a special mission from Cairo-to make a restless partner happier with its lot. No longer was there any pretense that Syrians were running their own show...