Word: staffs
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...someone like an entertainer could be very rich but he would not be one of the Rich because he does not take part in the production of goods and hence has no bearing on the decisions that are made in that sector. Equally, middle income people such as clerical staff are not in a position to participate directly in the running of the economic system...
However, Shepard Stone, president of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, which is sponsoring the conference said that he had contacted Nixon's staff and that some members might try to attend part of the conference...
There is no statutory permanent staff at the White House. But few new Presidents could easily survive in the 132-room mansion without its nonpartisan hired help. Thus, White House Calligrapher Sandy Fox will doubtless be busy scrawling banknote script on thousands of invitations for Nixon state dinners, as he has since the early days of John Kennedy's Administration, and Curator James Ketchum will continue to watch over the White House art and china collections...
...Bequest. The dominant figure on the permanent White House staff is Executive Assistant William J. Hopkins, 58, a bald, self-effacing factotum who joined Herbert Hoover in 1931, and has been the presidential office manager since 1943. Hopkins commands a crew of 255 secretaries, stenographers, messengers and telephone operators. He is, says Lyndon Johnson, "an indispensable instrument" to the management of the presidency...
...called Red Guards. After a heated debate, the officers formed a 14-man National Liberation Committee, and troops, half-tracks and Soviet-built T-34 tanks rolled out into Bamako's silent streets to secure key points. The rebels arrested the army's chief of staff and most government leaders and disarmed the militia. When Keita's yacht docked, troops seized the unsuspecting President and whisked him off to detention. The coup was over, but the difficulties for Mali's new leaders were...