Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last fortnight, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who means what he says and says what he means, tossed aside his staff-drafted notes and growled, "I don't want to offer you platitudes." Whereupon LeMay, longtime (1948-57) boss of the Strategic Air Command, now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, proceeded into blunt analysis of the role of reserve and National Guard outfits in modern defense establishment. By last week, with the angry replies coming in. Curt LeMay may have wished he had stuck to platitudes...
...Force investigate LeMay's qualifications to hold general rank. While that was plainly preposterous, the fact remained that Curt LeMay, distinguished air officer, had made in the National Guard Association a powerful enemy that would certainly do its best to block him from ever becoming Air Force Chief of Staff...
...Tories of a small fraction of the British electorate in marginal constituencies was enough to jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting Labor's leaders with...
Edward Heath, 43, Chief Tory Whip in the House of Commons. The man responsible for the cohesion and discipline of Tory M.P.s, quiet, determined Ted Heath performed near miracles by his firm but gentle enforcement of party loyalty during the Suez crisis. Widely considered the personification of Tory good sense and good manners, he is likely to be rewarded with a Cabinet post-perhaps the Ministry of Labor, if Iain Macleod moves...
...face of the evidence, it was hard to see why Master Butcher Albert Roden, 50, chief defendant in last week's trial of "the King of German Cattle Thieves," had ever turned to rustling at all. For years, his butcher shop on Düsseldorf's Rethelstrasse, manned by his two sons and his bleached-blonde wife, Anna, had been grossing $2,000 a week. But as the trial progressed, a painfully familiar story emerged: in 1951 on a jaunt to nearby Bad Neuenahr Casino, Roden caught the roulette bug, began to drop as much...