Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief of Turkey's general staff, who had been with Merdjan when the murder weapon was bought, was dragged into the case by a slip up. The court sentenced him to one year as an accomplice. Cried Merdjan, when his sentence was read: "I was double-crossed...
When the court of appeals which reviewed the case ordered a new trial, Orbay's father, Chief of Staff Kiazim Orbay, resigned. Ankara's public prosecutor also resigned. At the new trial the eyewitnesses were finally allowed to appear, and unanimously identified Hashmet Orbay as the murderer. Merdjan admitted that he had been persuaded to take the blame, on the promise that highly placed friends of his friend Orbay would get him off lightly. Sole witness in Orbay's defense was shapely, blonde Musherref Ishikman, his "fiancee," who testified that Hashmet had been visiting...
Southern Comfort. In Annapolis, Md., the Southern Maryland Times called off all news stories in its weekly edition and sent its staff on vacation, explained that the weather was just...
...elegant wartime deputy (1942-43) to COMINCH Ernie King and military adviser to the U.S. delegations at Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. Admiral Willson organized the Navy's communications during World War I, retired as adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after World War II to become associate editor of World Report...
...sale trick is the most effective one in Liberty's bag. It eliminates the need for a full-time sales staff, cuts the advertising budget way down to two or three days' concentrated ballyhoo and, above all, brings potential customers to an auction pitch where each buyer lures the other...