Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service. A committee of five generals and admirals last month submitted to Defense Secretary Wilson a thoughtful report on how to make the services more attractive to the kind of men they want to keep. One of the strongest proposals: maintain the old privileges of officer and NCO ranks. Recently, Secretary Wilson, as if he had never heard of the report, yielded to pressure-from organized liquor retailers-and banned sales of package liquor in service messes and clubs. Since package-liquor sales are a financial prop of officer and NCO clubs in the Navy and Marines, the order...
...point that anyone who walks into the room gets equal attention. "If President Pusey walked in right now," he said, "he'd have to get at the end of the line." A varsity player can move to the head of the line, but no one else can pull rank...
...biggest wiretapping agencies in the U.S. are the FBI, which on an average day has between 150 and 200 taps working, and the New York City Police Department. A state law allows any New York cop above the rank of sergeant to apply for a court order to wiretap, even when investigating misdemeanors. Orders are easy to get. Now & then, the cops tap public phones, listen in on hundreds of conversations in the hope of picking up leads on bookies or prostitutes...
...Church of England Newspaper last week looked hard at Pope Pius XII's prayer to the Virgin Mary, composed for the opening of the Marian Year (TIME, Dec. 14), and found in it implications of "rank heresy...
...keys to the city of Albany. President Truman once presented her with an award ("I talked with him, and I could not think but that he was one of my own boys"). General Eisenhower sent her a card from Europe reading: "For Grandma Moses, a real artist, from a rank amateur...