Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communists used their advanced MIG-17 jets to strafe Nationalist Chinese craft trying to reinforce Quemoy. Said Nationalist Chief of General Staff "Tiger'' Wang Shu-ming, "I don't know how much longer we can practice restraint...
...rare moment of relaxing, the Air Force's Vice Chief of Staff, bluff, gruff General Curtis E. LeMay, who two weeks ago set a world record for a nonstop 7,100-mile flight from Japan to Washington (time: 12 hr. 28 min.) in a KC-135 jet tanker, critically checked out the stogie-lighting skill of daughter Patricia Jane, 19. The occasion: a father-daughter dinner at the capital's National Press Club, where pretty Pat won a door prize, but failed to coax her high-flying papa from his chair for even one dance...
...scheduled return this week to the shrinking world of live TV drama (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). However the show might turn out, famed Producer Fred Coe (Peter Pan, Two for the Seesaw) had labored hard to make it authentic. On his orders, Writer David Karp and a staff of researchers went to work like aspiring Ph.D.s...
...Malenkov as he raised a glass at a Kremlin party. Gradually, as rehearsals wore on, the story took shape: the fierce old Georgian, breaking up his Politburo in an effort to divide and maintain control; the purge of Jewish doctors on a trumped-up charge of poisoning the General Staff; Stalin's assessment, shortly before his fatal stroke, of his possible successors-"Not Malenkov. Malenkov is an intellectual. Intellectuals have never made good leaders. Who is the brute among them? Who is the man most like...
...afternoon session, Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and his staff briefing team explained the mission of NATO and its capacity for preventing aggression...