Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempted in a U.S. congressional election year to scare off the U.S. with hair-raising war threats, the U.S. warned Red China that it intended to meet force with force (TIME, Dec. 29). Result: Red China backed down in a crushing loss of face, fired its army chief of staff. Year's score in Asia: Red China lost great face...
...confidence and the lessons of Lebanon and Quemoy, the Pentagon stepped up limited-war capability (from sixth priority to third priority, behind deterrent and retaliatory capability). But the broadening spectrum of limited power, and the growing military-diplomatic sophistication (the U.S. staff chiefs even have a planning committee for "pseudo-military" missions such as flying refugees from one country to another), still rested -as did the whole free world-under the air cover of the Strategic Air Command...
...subordinates. Arising punctually at 7:30, he breakfasts on coffee and croissants with Madame de Gaulle, then plunges into a detailed summary of the French and foreign press. At 9 he enters his office (which is decorated with busts of Caesar and Nero) for a conference with his personal staff, headed by 47-year-old Georges Pompidou, onetime executive of the Rothschild bank. The day planned, De Gaulle spends from two to three hours receiving visitors. Contrary to their original expectations, De Gaulle treats his own Cabinet ministers with old-fashioned courtesy, listens carefully and takes notes, but makes...
...quiet evening with his wife. Determined to avoid the nervous strain that wore 25 Ibs. off one of his predecessors, he makes it a rule that he is not to be disturbed in the evening except for a grave emergency. So far there has been no emergency his staff considered that grave...
...worked on Morgan affairs as a partner of the giant Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk, so impressed J. P. Morgan Jr. that he became a Morgan partner in 1939. He became chairman in 1955, with a reputation for topflight banking and for building Morgan's staff. In line with Morgan's new look, Alexander does a lot of traveling, tells prospects: "When you decide to borrow money, do not forget your country cousin at 23 Wall...