Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white hope of the Algerian diehards. At De Gaulle's behest, Soustelle last week slipped off to Paris in a special plane, trailing behind him uncharacteristically moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold-eyed Jacques Soustelle had always modestly refused to accept leadership of the Algerian Committee of Public Safety...
...profit from Puerto Rico by: ¶Replacement of hostility to private capital with an outright welcome, using tax incentives and hard-sell promotion. ¶ Official honesty; greasing endless palms frightens many businessmen. ¶ Sound planning and statistics. ¶ Playing down nationalism, working toward what Muñoz calls "the post-nationalist world...
...Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment to the newly created post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the country's armed forces...
...19th round of the spelldown, 13-year-old Betty Morgan, whose horn-blowing, flag-waving claque from Washington's St. Thomas Apostle School had cheered her through spinosity, serriform and caliginous, choked up on chiaus. Only four spellers were left: Stanley A. Schmidt, 14, entrant of the Cincinnati Post and station WCPO (each contestant was escorted by a markedly unobjective newsman from his home-town paper); Terry Madeira, 13, Harrisburg Patriot and News; Tina Strauss, 13, Pittsburgh Press: and 14-year-old Jolitta Schlehuber, Topeka Capital...
...Reston was generally a defender of onetime Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Krock a critic. But Krock thought so highly of his younger colleague in 1953 that he moved aside as the Times's Washington bureau chief so that Reston could have the job, thereby thwarted the Washington Post and Times Herald's hopes of landing Scotty as editor. Their recent differences seem more pointed and more specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited in glowing terms the "serious...