Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately 300 of the students seeking entrance may know of tentative acceptance before the University's May notification date. Members of the Admissions Office staff hold conferences with some school principals, and, after considering interviews, class rankings, and Scholastic Aptitude Tests, give the school headmasters and principals some indication of an applicant's chances for admission, contingent upon consistent good work for the rest of the year...
...myth come momentarily true in the abstract as if it were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted against the night sky, cries "We will gain our freedom," and hurls himself...
McElroy last Wednesday also appointed Air Force Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the two retired officers who previously held that job--Gen. Omar Bradley and Adm. Arthur F. Radford--to the group...
...scientists also have their eyes, minds and scientific talents fixed firmly on developing spaceships (called "Probes") to explore outer space. Surveying such projects, Frank Pace is convinced that defense industries have seen the last of the old feast-or-famine cycle. Says he: "If you have a good staff, you can count on business far into the future. There is competition, but basically the decisions are made on the basis of competence rather than price." Pace is convinced that General Dynamics has both the competence and the staff to help push back the frontiers of modern technology. Says...
...dirty-faced innocence about the book, and an undeniable storytelling ability. Half-illiterate when she wrote the novel, Berthe Grimault had help from a village postmaster who barbered the grammar, laundered the sex. Currently, a proper laundering is in process: at the Grove, a British finishing school, the staff is trying to get Berthe to behave as if she were less familiar with country matters...