Word: staff
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Classes such as headline writing, photography, classroom bulletin boards, pottery, jewelry, ballroom dancing, golf, horseback riding and-hang on to your hat-family planning and marital relations seem hardly more academic than "military staff operations...
...appointments made last week: General Andrew Goodpaster, 54, will become Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, replacing General Lyman Lemnitzer, 69, who has been head of NATO's military forces for more than six years. An old and trusted Nixon friend, Goodpaster was an unofficial White House chief of staff during the Eisenhower presidency and one of that Administration's most influential -if least visible-figures. That experience, and his easy relationship with Nixon, should serve the general well in his new assignment. A combat veteran of World War II (the Italian campaign), he was sent by the Army...
...heaviest blow to Egypt, though, was the loss of its "golden soldier" and Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Abdel Monem Riad, the most highly regarded officer in any Arab country. Artilleryman Riad had flown to Ismailia for a firsthand look at the shelling, when he was struck by what the Israelis termed a "lucky" direct hit. Perhaps as a mark of soldierly respect, the guns along the Suez were silent for Riad's funeral next day. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser led a parade of more than 100,000 mourners through Cairo, who broke into chants...
...last week's barrage was in part designed to slow down that arming, the Egyptians were too late. The Israelis are securely dug in along the canal, in what they call the "Barlev Line," named for Chief of Staff Haim Barlev. It consists of multistory bunkers equipped with electric lights and even television and roofed with a "secret" material (possibly a combination of timber, sand and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai railway line), which the Israelis claim can withstand a direct hit from a 130-mm. shell-one reason why their casualties were so light...
...deleterious effects of grading, and wish our petition to be weighed on the merits on this argument. To support our position on general libertarian grounds seems to use a particularly weak means of avoiding coming to terms with the political issues involved. Herb Gintis, for the Staff of Social Sciences...