Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the NATO pact, stopped short of the brink of civil war. In Paris General Charles de Gaulle was made Premier by constitutional vote (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington President Eisenhower, after an uneasy week, took what amounted to a major U.S. policy decision. He told his staff that he would be "very interested" in meeting De Gaulle at the right time in Washington or some place else to talk things over...
...clause handing any service Secretary and any member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a license to run to Capitol Hill to make "any recommendations that he may deem proper" would be "legalized insubordination . . . bad concept, bad practice, bad influence...
...Committee recommended funds for six additional Polaris subs-making nine altogether-instead of the Administration's request for two more. And Admiral Burke coolly announced the formation, effective July 1, of the Navy's first Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Squadron, with operational headquarters in New London and staff headquarters in Washington to press Polaris subs and to "develop operational plans...
Buying cheap (2? a word for articles) and selling dear ($298 to $1,500 a set), the Britannica has since earned the university some $5,500,000. Its contributors include 43 Nobel Prizewinners. Editor-in-Chief Walter Yust and a staff of 150 keep a continuous watch on the timeliness of its 43,512 articles. Editor Yust, onetime Philadelphia literary critic, defends the Britannica against an array of complaints, including pro-British bias (although the encyclopedia has been U.S.-owned for half a century) and Americanization. A more serious objection sometimes heard: that the work is too scholarly for laymen...
Died. William H. Francis Jr., 43, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve (since April 1957), Houston lawyer, longtime behind-the-scenes power in Texas Republican politics, World War II intelligence captain on Ike's staff; of a heart attack after playing tennis; in Washington, D.C. An advocate of higher military pay scales placing "major emphasis on achievement rather than on total years of service," Francis argued for the measure before a Senate subcommittee. It was enacted into law last week...