Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff, who was ready to help fight the President's war despite the fact that the Army is suffering from budget and manpower cuts. "Our setup in the Pentagon," he said, "is defective in that we do not have this permanent command post [at the Joint Chiefs level] ready to conduct military operations at any hour of the day. The Secretary of Defense is a man who has been given great responsibility. I must say you can't discharge a responsibility without great authority. Consequentially, by nature, I am on the side...
...only twice before-once during the Suez crisis, again when the Russians smashed the Hungarian rebellion. Hammarskjold could recall the fate of Trygve Lie, whose intervention on behalf of the U.N. in Korea had won Lie the hostility of the Russians and cost him the Secretary-General's post. But, at 52, Hammarskjold had just been re-elected to a five-year term, and for weeks he had been brooding about the disheartening deadlock over disarmament...
Frank H. White '55, now serving in the Armed Services, will probably take over Hoehler's post in September. White was originally named Assistant Dean in 1956, but was drafted by the Army...
...post of Assistant Dean of Residence and Student Affairs has been created at Radcliffe, President Jordan announced yesterday. The new asistant dean will be Miss Imogene A. Opton, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and a current candidate for an A.M. in Teaching. Miss Opton, a former member of the Olympic Ski Team, will assume her duties in the fall...
...spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...