Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooler-Eyed Scrutiny. Next afternoon, while Dulles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining and other top officials were meeting with the President in an overall review of the Middle East situation, Press Secretary James Hagerty hurried into Ike's office with the news, just off the White House Teletype machines, that Khrushchev had accepted the idea of a summit-level Security Council meeting. India's Prime Minister Nehru should take part, said Khrushchev, and so should "the Arab countries concerned." As the place and time, Khrushchev suggested New York City five days thence. "The threat to world...
...wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command of the English language," said one officer who served on his staff, and Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers, in a neo-British accent, to "go bird-dog this thing," or "go with the speed of a deer and do it," or "let's get our tails over the dashboard on this thing." His Navy nickname...
...performers. The goal is to have a real repertory company at Stratford in the summer to put on exciting productions, which will then be toured during the rest of the year--thereby bringing Shakespeare to many parts of the country and providing extended employment for the actors, actresses and staff; and, in addition, to have an ancillary school, where the youngest talents of today can be helped to become leading Shakespearean practitioners of tomorrow...
...Left Cairo staff college to fight in 1948 Palestine war. Wounded in the shoulder, he held out in "Faluja pocket" till Cairo stopped fighting. Bitterly convinced that the real enemy was the rotten regime back home, he organized his first Free Officers' secret meeting at Faluja...
...Russ Hodges once cracked: "There's one that almost turned around and went back." A pennant-contender club needs three solid starters, and the missing man is Righthander Ruben Gomez, a 15-game winner last year who has been blasted consistently in recent starts. Of his rickety pitching staff, Rigney says hopefully: "All they have to do is go out there and hold 'em for awhile, because this club is going to score runs...