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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another backfield shakeup yesterday highlighted the varsity football team's last lengthy drill before its opener against the University of Massachusetts Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Backfield Juggled In Crimson Drill | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

Changes will come slowly." He plans no big shakeup of the Central staff, is not even bringing along his own private secretary. Instead, among the Central's 100,000 employees, he wants to find a team to help him "build a good foundation for the railroad." Try Research. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Perlman got his start in railroading as an engine-wiper before moving into the engineering end of the business. After a stint in the RFC's railroad division and at the Burlington, he joined the bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Young Takes Over | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Last week, in the uproar that followed, Marc Jacquet, Under Secretary for the Indo-China States, who had in the past slipped reports to Servan-Schreiber, resigned, and there was a shakeup in the French military high command (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week L'Express was out again-and its circulation shot up by 13,000-to 115,000-and is still rising. Said Editor Servan-Schreiber happily: "The government really did us the best turn they possibly could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man with a Mission | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Last week, in a shakeup following the June 17 workers' revolt, Zaisser was one of half a dozen who lost their jobs. He was the biggest to fall. His Ministry of State Security was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, and he was kicked off the German Communist Party's Central Committee and the German Politburo. The official reason: "Representing a wing hostile to the party, and being an exponent of the defeatist line calculated to undermine the unity of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Soldier of Communism | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...William James Erwin, 52, vice president and general manager of South Carolina's Riegel Textile Corp., was named president of Dan River Mills, headless since President Russell Newton was ousted last October in a company shakeup. Erwin started as a textile engineer with Virginia's Consolidated Mills in 1921, switched to South Carolina's Republic Cotton Mills in 1934, to J. P. Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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