Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While this voluminous dossier was being assembled, Ecker and Mrs. Brine spent several days at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, of which Oppenheimer is the head. They came away with enough information to fill a 57-Page report. At lunch in the Institute cafeteria a staff member told them that although the staff, the economists, the humanists, the mathematicians, etc. usually ate at their respective tables, Oppenheimer was at home with all of them. As for herself she added: "There's just no use trying to eat lunch with a mathematician. They won't leave...
...Service. Forrestal and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...Team. In the institute's eight-story stone building on the slope of Mount Royal, Dr. Wilder Penfield, the director and one of the world's top brain specialists, set to work with his staff. Explained Dr. Penfield to Elizabeth's mother: "This problem can only be solved by teamwork. You can't hope to win nowadays by any other method...
...Last year 904 major operations were performed. Under Dr. Penfield, the institute has won an international reputation, attracted doctors and research fellows from all over the world. The institute houses both a hospital and McGill's neurological laboratories; when they are not treating patients, Dr. Penfield and his staff teach neurology and neurosurgery to McGill's medical students...
...only $2.40. The villain was production expense. For example: production costs of Ford's hour of radio drama are $10,000 a week. Besides actors, ten production people are needed. Production costs of a similar Ford show on television (the Ford Theater) are $17,000; and a production staff of 40, including 13 stagehands and five men in the control room to direct them, is required...