Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Urban Studies Center will be drawn form the faculties of the two participating universities, although Meyerson said he hoped to acquire visiting staff members from other colleges and countries in the future. He expects to have as many as 20 staff members working under the Center in the first year...
...Paris last week a gaunt, leathery career officer acquired, almost unnoticed, more political power than any other soldier on active duty in the Western democracies. By governmental decree, General Paul Ely, 61, Chief of France's National Defense Staff, was given precedence over all French officials save President Charles de Gaulle and Premier Michel Debre. Hereafter, Ely, not the Minister of Defense, will be directly in charge of France's national security; if he chooses, in a time of crisis, Ely can even enter into international negotiations on his own authority...
...promised to support Massu's movement with an additional 4,000 paratroopers, 80 tanks and two battalions of colonial infantry. In all probability the attack would have met with no organized resistance. Unwilling to take responsibility for plunging France into civil war, General Ely resigned as Chief of Staff rather than issue an order calling upon units in France to oppose their brother soldiers from Algeria...
...rescue team's chief, Rupert Fothergill, 46, is mostly concerned with keeping his men alive. Fothergill himself has been bitten by a python and a rufus-beaked snake; one of his staff, while swimming, was bitten on the lip by a hissing sand snake. More than the animals and reptiles, Fothergill fears the dangers of diving into the lake where there is always the possibility of losing an eye on a tree branch or being impaled on a stake. Lions and elephants will be relatively easy to handle. Says Fothergill: "An elephant can swim a long way. It will...
...week, is the joint venture of the U.S. Government, big business and private philanthropy. The Navy will donate the Consolation,* American President Lines will operate her at cost, and the People-to-People Health Foundation will raise the cash (estimated annual bill: $3,500,000), sign on a permanent staff (some 15 doctors, 20 nurses), and a rotating staff of 35 doctors taken largely from U.S. medical schools. Called HOPE ("health opportunity for people everywhere"), the project is already swamped with applications from doctors bidding for the slots that range from dermatology to psychiatry...