Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested reorganization, Leach saw the post of the secretary of defense would remain essentially the same. Under him, there would be three under secretaries, one watching over ground developments, one watching over air developments and one watching over water developments. The units within the single Armed Force, however, would all wear the same uniform...
...lost his identity. The movie lacks subtitles, and the story-telling comes through picture progression in which the old man himself appears less than his image. You see him pictured in the mirror of the hotel's washroom, and in the imaginings which return to his old post. Unlike The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari where the complex settings were photographed straight-on, the camera work, done by Carl Freund, is essential to the doorman's fantasies. These dreams superimpose the hotel's revolving door or its shadow on his visions of himself in full uniform. When he gets drunk...
...sweeping changes are contemplated in the plans of this institute for graduate study and post-doctoral research. Presumably financed by a foundation grant, the Center would be headed by a director whose main function would be to synthesize a strong degree curriculum from functioning graduate and departmental programs. At the same time, the Center would contribute to meeting an acute need for new courses and personnel at the undergraduate level as well, as more instructors in the area of International Relations would be brought to Cambridge and a tighter study plan could be developed for the undergraduate concentrator...
Notable Example. When she resigned last week, Italy's Premier Segni cabled: "You have served with success the cause of Italian-American friendship." Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "She has given a notable example of how well a woman can discharge a political post of grave responsibility." Added influential Il Populo: "News of her departure is met with regret everywhere in Italy...
Died. Major General Charles Macon ("Bull") Wesson, 78, onetime West Point ('00) line-bucker, later Chief of Army Ordnance, who took over that appropriations-poor department in 1938, had held the post for three years when the U.S. staggered into World War II without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece and still using World War I helmets, by his retirement in 1942 had fired up the Army's weapons program to nearly full steam; in Washington...