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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel from 1953 to 1958-he held the job longer than any other Navy officer in 75 years-he was one of the few flag-rank officers who fought the Navy's real Lord Plushbottoms to push the promotion to flag rank of Hyman Rickover, prickly pioneer of the atomic submarine. One day, to a group of young naval officers, he summed up his philosophy of leadership in a way that defines his value to the nation today. Said he: "You men probably do not think...
...fought off hordes of flies, had slept on the ground or in hammocks made from dirty burlap bags; more than half had dysentery from the uncertain diet. But they kept up military discipline and set their own order of release: married men first, then men with the lowest rank. As the last helicopter departed, the rebels turned their attention back to the business at hand: a rumored offensive by Dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...Manhattan medical meeting: kanamycin, an antibiotic developed from a microbe found in K-2J, has won quick renown. Like all potent drugs, it has its disadvantages (it must usually be given by injection, and long-continued heavy dosage may cause some degree of deafness). But it seems worthy to rank with the tetracyclines, which, after penicillin (still queen of antibiotics), are now the most-used antibiotics...
...program's chief architect is C. Douglas Dillon, 48, onetime chairman of Dillon, Read & Co., investment bankers, who was promoted fortnight ago to the rank of U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Dillon's first objective: an increase in the reserves of the International Monetary Fund, which have not been raised generally since the fund was created in 1944, although inflation and rising world trade have cut in half the fund's effectiveness in keeping world currencies in balance. Although the fund squeaked through the currency crisis at the time of Suez, many fear that...
...shows; even the familiar 27-year-old broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday matinees have been canceled out by some ABC stations. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. disaffiliated its five stations from the networks (four from NBC, one from ABC) to go local, boasts that now all but one rank No. 1 in audience in their respective cities. The networks offer newscasts from Moscow and an occasional big name; local radio offers bargain pork chops at a nearby butcher shop, a $50,000 check that may lie buried in the listener's own backyard, a chance to shake hands...