Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rushed to the battle in his helicopter. As it flew across the battle area, Ware's helicopter suddenly caught fire and crashed, most likely brought down by enemy ground fire. At 52, Ware became the fourth U.S. general to die in combat in Viet Nam.* Three of his staff and the four helicopter crewmen died with...
...boys in Viet Nam. It seems that Airman First Class Pat Nugent, with a supply outfit, has volunteered for so many extra combat-supply missions he has logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened, then kept lathering away, sure the shell would not disrupt either...
Positive Force. A graduate of California's Riverside campus, Young earned his Ph.D. in political science at U.C.L.A. and gained some practical knowledge about the subject while serving for two years in Washington as an aide to Congressman Lee Metcalf. In 1959, he was hired as a staff assistant to Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California. One year later, Franklin Murphy lured him to U.C.L.A. as his personal assistant, eventually got him promoted to assistant chancellor and began to groom him as a potential successor. While Murphy planned and directed U.C.L.A.'s massive expansion program...
...Stern's establishment, the clients come for one day only. With the aid of a scrupulously neutral staff, they are measured and examined. Between bouts of play and sleep, they study their own lives and the world, life wish and death wish together. Then comes calm choice -a return to the world or death, an end reached through a wide range of means provided by the management. Suicides, Stern observes, are the graduate students of the academy...
...private business," he said, "I'd go broke in a week. This just isn't any way to run a railroad. We have moved the aide's responsibilities forward without giving him comparable recognition." The main problem, as Bay saw it, was the huge staff turnover. Except for physicians, one-third of Topeka State's employees have been there for less than a year, and one-fourth for less than six months! The reason for the turnover is simple: poor pay with no hope of betterment...