Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Combs described in detail the work of Wadman at Berkeley, who is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's academy, a graduate of Oxford University in England, and the veteran of 17 years of police work...
Perhaps most significant in the entire muddled situation was the statement of Senator Jenner, who heard Combs' testimony. To Jenner there was no doubt but that Combs was describing the system accurately and after he had heard in detail about the powerful "contact man," the Senator said he hoped the California plan could become "a model for other states...
Also cited by the House were Barrows Dunham, Temple University philosophy professor, whose case appears in detail elsewhere in the paper; two public school teachers, Wilbur Lee Mahaney, Jr., Trappe, Pa., and Mrs. Goldie E. Watson, of Philadelphia; Ole Fagerhaugh, Oakland, California warehouseman, John T. Watkins, Rock Island, Illinois, official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, CIO, and Francis X. T. Crowley of New York City...
...balance between pay, position, privilege and office furniture so carefully monitored as it is in West Germany's orderly civil service. Last week, Adenauer's pfennig-pinching Minister of Finance Fritz Schaffer issued a directive to spell the whole thing out in precise. Teutonic detail. Herr Schaffer decreed a maximum expenditure of $60 to furnish a typist's office, $140 for "experts working in special fields," and about $285 for the office appointments of a department head...
...miles from the nearest town, which was a hot, dusty hamlet that "looked as if it had been blown in on a dry wind and stranded." Author Iliff served as teacher, doctor, judge, superintendent, and, incidentally, weather reporter to the U.S. Government. Her story is full of fascinating detail (e.g., at puberty, Havasupai girls were placed on a bed of heated stones and instructed all night in the facts of life for a wife and homemaker). A quiet, good-humored book about a vanishing life...