Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergency committee of seven senior executives was placed in temporary command last week, and CBC's harassed-and understandably weary-acting president, Ernest Bushnell, 58, was packed off on two months' leave. Added up, the CBC was striking evidence of the trouble that is inherent in government operation of a medium of communication in a free society...
...drunk, who cried when his wife Pearlie and two-year-old son rushed up to him before he was sentenced; Patrick Scarborough, 20, orphaned at seven, when his mother was killed in a barroom brawl and his father committed suicide; David Ervin Beagles, 18, a gum-chomping high school senior who held a switchblade knife to the girl's throat before the assault; Ollio Stoutamire, 16, a sometime juvenile delinquent, who has been raised by assorted relatives since his mother's death at his birth...
...Iselin II himself. Since the prewar days when he solved the Navy's temperature problems off Guantanamo, he has been longtime director of Woods Hole, seen its fulltime staff grow from a prewar 24 to the present 300, its fleet from one ship to five, is now its senior oceanographer...
...Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
Joining other senior Royal Air Force brass in a submachine-gun target match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...