Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur F. (for Frank) Burns rumpled his bushy hair, scrawled a final correction on the document before him, brushed away the shreds of Blue Boar' tobacco which littered his vest, and wearily got up from his desk. It was 2 a.m., and Burns, the chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, had just finished the hardest single job of his life: shaping the President's economic report to Congress (see above...
Professional Career: After infantry school, appointed as an aide to Brigadier General B. A. Poore, who finally endorsed Lieut. Twining's application for air training, snorting: "If he is crazy enough to want to transfer . . . we ought to help him." After a long siege of desk and staff jobs, named (1943) commanding general of the undersized Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific. On Jan. 26,1943, Twining's B-1 7 with 15 aboard was forced down at sea off the New Hebrides Islands. After six days on a life raft (during which Twining proved his marksmanship...
Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...
Back to GHQ. Last week, when students at Horns began rioting on schedule, and old Sultan Pasha el Atrash called in his subchieftains to plot trouble, Shishekly abandoned his gamble. He left the presidential palace, went to his desk at army GHQ and decreed martial...
External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles Pearson arose in the House of Commons one day last week to open the annual full-dress debate on foreign policy. Spreading on his desk a sheaf of handwritten notes which he had edited and re-edited almost to that hour, he outlined a policy that has undergone some shifts in emphasis, but not in direction, within the last year...