Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asylum with a simple, eloquent statement of his circumstances and a fine command of English. Said he: "I desire a life of freedom, which is not possible for a citizen of the U.S.S.R." Talking with Burmese newsmen later, he said that "the main occupation of all the Soviet embassy staff in Rangoon is to spy," that Russia and Red China cooperate closely in espionage activities in Burma, but that "my personal opinion, based on my knowledge, is that the main role is played by Communist China...
...West Ridgeway Dras Bandaranaike was a fellow student of Anthony Eden at Oxford; India's Nehru and the King of Buganda went to Cambridge. Pakistan's boss, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, was trained at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, as was India's Chief of Staff, General Thimmaya. Every fourth cadet on parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London School of Economics, and Singapore...
Princeton University Marian Anderson, singer, alternate U.S."' delegate to the U.N L.H.D. Citation: "Her transcendent powers of human understanding have made her our most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman...
Joining other senior Royal Air Force brass in a submachine-gun target match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...
Bach's protégés, most of them poor and obscure at the start, have snapped some 100 LIFE covers in all. At one time nine Bachians were on the staff of LIFE (Bob Landry, John Florea, Mark Kauffman, George Strock, Hank Walker, John Dominis, Peter Stackpole, Harold Trudeau, John Wilkes). West Coast newspapers are full of Bach alumni; others are aiming the nation's TV and newsreel cameras. In World War II, 146 were combat cameramen, and four died in action. What Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge was to Shakespeare, Fremont High...