Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...
...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
...become engaged in tiffs about the use of Radcliffe girls in their plays, though generally it was Radcliffe officials with whom they had to deal. And a short-lived rival of the CRIMSON, The Harvard Journal, which was founded in 1934, had over a dozen Radcliffe members on its staff. It had to bargain with Radcliffe officialdom to get these members, but it never sought official Harvard approval and Harvard officials never interfered. Today, an organization seeking Radcliffe personnel comes under the closest Dean's Office scrutiny...
...part of its overall study of normal people, the Grant Staff has compiled data on many other groups since 1938. During the war, the doctors made detailed records on selected Naval Aviation cadets, Communications officers, and chaplains. Later they kept tabs on Theological students and business executives. Last year, using Hygiene Department records and interviews, Grant began a four-year study of problems presented in the Class of '52. If possible the doctors hope to follow up this group as they are doing with men from their original project. Adding information on special cases, and on men with academic troubles...
Some conclusions from the project are already apparent to the staff. "Our work shows an extra-ordinary variability in human beings," Dr. Heath says. "We early gave up the idea that there is such a thing as a normal person...