Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never snapped a rope or a wing. When Hollywood filmed Hell Divers in 1931, the High Hats flew all the stunt scenes. Clark Gable's flying standin: Art Radford, now retired after topping his career with four years of service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Only nation not voting: the Dominican Republic. Since Playboy "Ramfis" Trujillo, the dictator's son, was refused a diploma from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, the Dominican Republic has had the sulks over everything American (presumably including the U.N. because it is in New York...
Congressional Democrats had been aching for months to get back home and start pelting the Eisenhower Administration with a juicy collection of overripe campaign fruit: the "Eisenhower Recession," the "Pentagon Mess" that saw the U.S. lag behind Russia in technological progress, the "Vicuna Coat Case" involving White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams and influence-buying Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine. But last week, about ready to head for the hustings, Capitol Hill Democrats were dismayed to find that the rush of world events had drastically cut into their ammunition supply. Items...
...lopsided House vote was 369 to 8 (all Republicans). Notably missing from the House debate: any mention of Goldfine's friend, White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, whose intercession for Goldfine with federal agencies brought on the year's most dramatic congressional investigation (TIME, June 23 et seq.). Notably absent when the House voted: Massachusetts Democrat John McCormack, the House majority leader, a period piece in Goldfine's political collection...
...spring, it had seemed certain that the veteran starting staff of Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette. Gene Conley, Bob Rush and Bob Buhl would soon put Milwaukee out front. But while the Yankees ran off and out of reach of the rest of the American League by late May. the Braves bumbled along into August without showing championship form. After a fine start, Spahn ran into a temporary slump. Burdette could not manage to win consistently. Conley has yet to win a game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury...