Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most distinguished ever to graduate from the old Army Air Corps flying school at Kelly Field, Texas. Stirred by Charles Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris in 1927, many promising young men flocked to Kelly to win their wings. Among the class of 1929 graduates: Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief...
...member of his public relations staff, a young divorcee, had taken a special interest in my article and promised that she would get me in to see Fidel. She gave me the number of his suite, the private telephone number, and the name and number of his chief bodyguard--information, she assured me, which Trujillo agents would pay dearly to get I stayed in touch with her for three nights while she waited for Castro's return...
...accepted a few communist ideas, and has fallen for parts of the local communist line, but by no stretch of the definition is he a Communist. Fidel Castro is not merely an incompetent guerilla leader; though his executive abilities are questionable he works harder than almost any other chief of state in the world. Fidel Castro is not a god; Cuba's popular magazine, Bohemia, printed a sketch of him, brows furrowed, eyes cast upward, with a light halo about his curly locks, but in the story made a point of denying that he was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ...
...Thomas Elbert Sunderland, 52, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. (Ind.), was named president and chief executive officer of the trouble-torn United Fruit Co., succeeding Kenneth H. Redmond, 64, retiring after 42 years with the company. Sunderland, who admits he "knows nothing about bananas," is an expert in the antitrust problems that plague United Fruit; under a 1958 antitrust decree, United Fruit must sell off some of its properties, give up 35% of its import business. A Michigan-born lawyer, Sunderland saw World War II service in the Army Air Forces, became a Standard director...
...himself eternally at war with "the tyranny of the dull mind," i.e., nine-tenths of his immediate military superiors and nearly all army regulations. When he was passed over for an appointment to the Staff College, Wingate strode to a Yorkshire hilltop where General Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking-to (eventually he won his appointment). Time and again later, Wingate was to go over the heads of his field commanders and appeal successfully to the topmost...