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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel from 1953 to 1958-he held the job longer than any other Navy officer in 75 years-he was one of the few flag-rank officers who fought the Navy's real Lord Plushbottoms to push the promotion to flag rank of Hyman Rickover, prickly pioneer of the atomic submarine. One day, to a group of young naval officers, he summed up his philosophy of leadership in a way that defines his value to the nation today. Said he: "You men probably do not think...
...Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British and Commonwealth opinion demanded it, who put over the idea of holding a summit meeting with a major condition attached: it must be held...
...Middle East has diminished," then such nations as Turkey, Iran and Israel should be included, as well as Khrushchev's own choices, India and the Arab states. But such a meeting "would not have any relation" to a summit meeting, said De Gaulle, which he thought should be held in Geneva or some other European city...
...settlement that the vast bulk of their countrymen wanted. At week's end Premier Saeb Salam, self-styled "leader of Beirut rebels," who keeps a sign on his sandbagged command post, "Appointments 9 to 1 and 4 to 7," announced that the elections ought not to be held as long as Chamoun remained President, and "aggressor" troops remained on Lebanese soil. But other rebels disavowed his remarks...
...never got off the ground. Smelling a rat, SEC stepped in, and refused to clear a proxy statement to get existing shareholders' permission for the issue. Meanwhile the American Exchange had suspended Cornucopia from trading for failure to file required financial statements. Nevertheless, even though Belle & Co. only held options, they were able to install officers in some of the companies (making textiles, hot-water heaters and electronics, a printing plant, real estate, etc.) and sweet-talk the banks into loans on the companies' names and supposed assets...