Word: liaisoning
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...Assistant: Major General (ret.), Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 52, brother of Alabama's Democratic Governor Gordon Persons and former head of Staunton (Va.) Military Academy. A long time Army spokesman on Capitol Hill and Ike's public-relations adviser at NATO, he will be Ike's liaison man to Congress...
...Administrative Assistant: Dr. Gabriel S. Hauge (pronounced how-ghee), 38, New York economist and Business Week editor who wrote most of Ike's whistle-stop speeches. He will be charged with liaison between the White House and Government departments on economic problems...
After the private session, Ike and Truman moved into the Cabinet Room with their advisers. There Dean Acheson did most of the talking. A joint press statement reported that Truman and Eisenhower had "worked out a framework of liaison and exchange of information," but made clear that "General Eisenhower has not been asked to assume any of the responsibilities of the presidency until he takes the oath of office." Before Ike left, Harry Truman handed him three loose-leaf volumes summarizing U.S. policies through the world, and top-secret plans in case of all-out Communist attack on Korea, Yugoslavia...
...ghastly battle of the South Koreans and Chinese Reds for the strategic ridges north of Kumhwa went into its seventh week. U.S. corps officers and liaison men who had seen it were sick and sad at heart. Said an A.P. dispatch: "Some [U.S. officers] have wept as pitiful remnants of full companies dragged their way back down the shell-blasted slopes of Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. Combat rifle companies are sprinkled heavily now with green replacements...
Another defendant, André Simone, said that he had established liaison with agents of the "Overseas News Agency," identified as a branch of the Jewish Information Service, at a seafood restaurant in Manhattan between 45th and 46th Streets. Simone asked the court for hanging. "I can be happy," he said, "with no other penalty...