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When Charlie Wilson abruptly offered Brucker the Army secretaryship last week, he asked for time "to call the Missus." He phoned home to tell her, "I guess I'm in the Army now." Then he went back to Wilson's office and took on the job of bossing the 1,100,000-man U.S. Army...
...return for his strong sponsorship of Magsaysay, Recto won the Under Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs for one of his young law associates, Leon Guerrero...
...Stephens '55 of Eliot House and Lometa, Texas, who was unanimously elected president at the start of the meeting. From this point on, in an unprecedented rebellion, a concerted minority waged a close battle to upset the organization choices, only losing the vice-presidency by five votes, and the secretaryship by four...
...insure the succession of his loyal deputy. But Eden is reported not to look with favor on this plan: he does not like doing only routine jobs; as an old officeholder, he dislikes a title without a department to go with it. Furthermore, he fears that the foreign secretaryship might go to his chief rival in foreign affairs in the party: Harold Macmillan, 59, of the book-publishing Macmillans, and personal friend of Churchill and Eisenhower. Another possibility for Foreign Secretary: Sir Walter Monckton, 62, the sturdy former Solicitor-General who has done an outstanding job as Minister of Labor...
...pass up all the cheap little victories, like getting your picture in the paper, because it makes it easier to arrive at the ultimate goal of power." ¶That Malenkov, therefore, was set forward as Premier. Ten days later, "at his own wish." Malenkov gave over the vital party secretaryship, and its control of party cadres, to Old Bolshevik Nikita Khrushchev. In Stalin's day, when men began growing too big, he handled them as Hercules did the giant Antaeus: he lifted them up and kept their feet off the ground, whereupon, having lost touch with their roots, they...