Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation only on the morning of the broadcast. But the public and politicians felt sure that a "liberal" solution was coming-and everything De Gaulle did last week strengthened that belief. In a move clearly intended to head off potential army resistance, rightist General Andre Zeller, chief of staff of French ground forces, was replaced by Gaullist General Andre Demetz. And to the African Premiers, De Gaulle for the first time used the word "self-determination" in connection with Algeria...
Coldly Cruel. The worst furor of all broke when the New Delhi Statesman headlined the shocking news that India's popular and able army chief of staff, General K. S. Thimayya, had handed in his resignation. The reason: months of incessant bickering, especially about promotions in the armed forces, between Thimayya and the civilian Minister of Defense, crotchety, Mephistophelean Krishna Menon...
...likes Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky). Overall, he has a record of only 8-4. But with Koufax now at his blinding best (31 strike-outs -in his last two games) and crossfiring Don Drysdale leading the league in strikeouts (207), the second-place Dodgers have the fastest staff in the majors as they settle down for the September stretch fight with the Giants. To prove the point. Dodger pitchers last week breezed past the major-league-team strikeout record of 896 set by the Detroit Tigers...
...Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Nathan Twining-Lincoln High School, Portland...
...Executive Officer Frederic G. Donner, 56, and President John F. Gordon, 59, moved longtime (eight years) Executive Vice President Louis Clifford Goad, 58. In charge of G.M.'s automotive, body and assembly, and parts divisions since 1951, Cliff Goad has jurisdiction over all of G.M.'s general-staff activities: distribution, engineering, manufacturing, personnel, public relations, research and styling...