Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gavin later emphasized that he was not talking about the individual competence of the present chiefs) and is not enough. Said Jim Gavin: "He [McElroy] needs more advice than the Joint Chiefs of Staff give him. I think really what is needed now is a competent military staff of senior military people working directly for the Secretary of Defense. I would have them take over the functions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I would have the military staff organized to handle operations, plans, intelligence, and in fact break up the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...urban councilors to act as "advisers" to the Belgian authorities. All males, white or black, over 25 years of age were eligible to vote. The Belgian aim is to create a "partnership" between the two races, setting them out to travel on parallel courses, but with the whites significantly senior. Thus, under the new "cities statute," Leopoldville is divided into three European communes for its population of 30,000 whites, and eight jampacked African communes for its 350,000 blacks. White and Negro mayors will be selected from the elected councilors by veteran (six years) Governor General Leon Petillon...
...Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan. The bishop considers their conversion more a matter of manpower than of time. "With enough priests to station one every ten kilometers, it would not take too long," he says. The first step in that direction is a new seminary with an enrollment of , more than 100 students...
...about truth, understanding, integrity, enlightenment, justice, liberty, courage, honesty and critical judgment-the very virtues he saw extolled on countless plaques and friezes about Columbia's campus. But after searching for the light, first a physics and then as an English major, Jacobsen gave up. In his senior year, he flunked four courses, and the college refused to give him his degree. Last week, when Columbia filed suit against him for $1,000 for repayment of a student loan, Jacobsen lashed back with a suit of his own. Columbia, he said in court, is guilty of "false representation...
...watch for the Jumbos is high-scoring guard Bert Muench, who tallied 36 points in the Brown defeat and who has consistently led the squad in scoring. Muench, a 6-foot senior, can set, drive, set up plays, and has even played the pivot on occasion...