Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general staff advocates reply that the services could certainly keep their separate identity and esprit de corps under a general staff system. (The high-morale U.S. Marine Corps has been a part of the Navy since its founding in 1775.) While it is true that an oversimplified doctrinaire war plan could be disastrous, the advocates argue that a war plan carefully thought through, carefully approved by civilians both in Pentagon and Congress, would take maximum advantage of the strength of all the services and of the U.S. economy. As for the man on horseback, say general staff advocates...
...such far-reaching change as a general staff system could and should come only after the fullest possible debate-and that debate is just now starting in earnest. To be carefully weighed is the possibility that the conversion, in Sputnik's day, would be too strong a dose of medicine, might do the patient more harm than good. Yet the proponents of the general staff system argue that the U.S. can afford no less at a time when the technology of war and weapons has so plainly outraced the military organization that supports...
...handed Hammarskjold $3,600 to be used as Christmas gifts for the thousands of Arab refugee children in UNRWA's Gaza camps. Indian troops volunteered to relieve Danes, Norwegians, Canadians, Swedes, Brazilians and Colombians of their guard duty for the Christmastide. Said a member of Hammarskjold's staff: "All these people clearly want to be identified with the U.N. and to play their part in this unique operation. One after another said: 'This is an army of peace.' And, by God, it has sown the seed of peace in their minds-even among newcomers...
...regents listed in the university's bulletins from Chillicothe, four deny that they ever agreed to serve. When one man refused to be a regent, Belin simply made him a "trustee" without bothering to tell him. The bulletins list a law school, but there was no one to staff it. Though 100 engineering courses are listed, there is only one man in the "college of engineering," and the faculty of the journalism school is one journeyman printer. A student from Greece who went to Belin after reading its glowing account of its premedical program found that it does...
Management Audience. But the Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat...