Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobiles, refrigerators--and yet with chronic over-populations, a lack of marketable natural resources, and a demoralizing lack of opportunity for western-quality education, a natural frustration and discontent is generated. This was best expressed by a native who said bitterly to me, "I'd rather be a lamp-post in New York than the governor of this whole damned island." This sort of ambition can be seen as well in the plaintive glances into shop windows...
...newly-appointed dean is now vice-dean of men at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty for 13 years. Vatter will return to his post at Pennsylvania in July...
...More Promotions. Clearly, Khrushchev planned to kick Zhukov upstairs to some such post as Deputy Premier, thus depriving him of control of the armed forces but at the same time avoiding the risk of a public showdown. Communist newspapers in Europe blossomed out with obviously inspired stories that the marshal was slated for "an important new post." On the afternoon of Zhukov's return to Moscow, Tass and Radio Moscow reported his arrival with all the flowery detail they reserve for VIPs...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...
...tribute, Bethlehem Steel made Grace honorary chairman, and abolished the post of chairman. Named chief executive was Grace's longtime (since 1945) second-in-command, President Arthur Bartlett Homer, 61, a precise and analytical Beth Steel veteran (since 1919) who bossed Bethlehem's World War II shipbuilding program. One of Homer's first pronouncements in his new job: Grace is recovering from his illness, is itching to return as an active adviser...