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...much the office of Secretary-General as the man who occupied it. Last October, during Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging visit to the General Assembly, the Soviet Premier had proclaimed his dislike of Hammarskjold ("We do not trust Mr. Hammarskjold and cannot trust him"), demanded that the Secretary-Generalship be replaced by a three-man executive, representing the three world blocs, the East, the West and the neutrals. Hammarskjold branded this for what it was: a deliberately unworkable idea that would hamstring the entire U.N. Secretariat...
...home. Officers were less than welcome in the city room; one sergeant habitually flung pastepots at any such invaders. It provided the first frame for Bill Mauldin's expert cartoons of Willie and Joe, the two war-weary, grizzled infantrymen who patiently endured everything that Nazi and U.S. generalship threw their way. With courage, Stripes correspondents dug in at the front among combat troops: during the Battle of the Bulge, the Strasbourg edition was printed for several days from Nazi territory; before the war ended, Stripes correspondents died in action at the battlefront...
...Forbush will open in place of Bagnoli. Forbush is extremely competent in the nets, but he lacks Bagnoli's field generalship and experience. The rapid, hard-shooting Tiger line will give him plenty of opportunities to prove himself. As Munro put it, "We'll know in the first quarter whether Forbush can handle...
...fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party paid its bills. In the angry exchange. Ford recalled Sum-merfield's generalship of the Michigan delegation at the 1952 convention, his slowness in moving from Taft to Eisenhower. his warning to Ford at the time: "If you interfere with this, I'll drag you through the streets of Detroit...
...Hoffa's rise to power, and the uses he has made of it, are detailed and documented in the McClellan committee record, sprawling over 44,000 pages of testimony. Backing up the transcripts are truckloads of documents, photostats and recordings gathered by dozens of investigators under the zealous generalship of Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, younger brother of Presidential Hopeful John F. Kennedy, himself a McClellan committee member. But for all its awesome bulk, the record has some significant gaps: committee investigators found that many Teamster documents, including all records of Hoffa's own Local...