Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEAN ACHESON: Not until the end of 1950 had the Secretary of State with his senior aides ever sat down with the Secretary of Defense and the Chiefs of Staff to take counsel on a common problem, then the situation in Korea. In the course of those meetings General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of State entered into a secret treaty. They agreed that henceforth between them the phrases "from a purely military point of view" and "from a purely political point of view" would be forbidden as utterly meaningless...
...hundreds of specialists remain, no matter what the Administration. For years Williams and his six-man detail have sown the turf, sprayed the elms and broadcast electronic squawks through a loudspeaker system to keep off the starlings and sparrows. The gardeners and more than 300 other permanent White House staff members-from Steve Martini, the executive barber since 1952, to White House Upholsterer Larry Arata-are likely to be staying on after...
...front page was devoted to a picture of a man and a woman, apparently having intercourse standing up. "Only a naive person would assume they are just standing there," a News staff member said yesterday...
...WHAT!" That blast jolted the entire secretarial staff; probably the first time in weeks they were all awake at once. Visibly restrained, then, "Would you please explain to me how that figure is computed? I get the uncomfortable feeling I'm being taken for a ride...
Although the new ministry has not yet been planned, it will cut down on what Mumma yesterday called the "theological zoo" at the two universities. Discarding the assumption that each minister works only with his own flock, the system might involve fewer staff members and would certainly be more "issue and task-oriented, not institution-oriented," Mumma said...