Word: staffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...side of the Korean peninsula to its western approaches. More important, it moves the ships farther from Soviet shores, making them less provocative to Moscow. In any event, it seems that TF-71 will be only a temporary measure. General Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a special House investigating committee last week that TF-71 is "inordinately expensive" and can only be maintained for "a limited period of time." Wheeler noted further that earlier attempts to protect the reconnaissance flights had proved "very expensive and relatively ineffective" and ,had been stopped...
...possibly handle. "I'm sort of an industrial 'Dear Abby,' " he says. "They come to me only when there's a mess." One such distress call came from Western Electric in Kansas City, which was having trouble with a certain production line. Working with the staff engineers, Tichauer evolved a pair of pliers with a 30° bend in the handle. As a result of this consideration for the human wrist, which tires quickly when awkwardly contorted, efficiency took an immediate and gratifying climb...
During practice last week, the pitching staff corrected a flaw in Dorwart's motion toward the plate and the result has been two straight nine inning victories. In yesterday's game, the right-hander had control problems at the start and walked five batters, but he was never in serious trouble and was never hit hard after the fourth inning...
...Earlier this spring, the CRIMSON planned to publish a special biographical supplement on the members of the Harvard Corporation. Staff exhaustion in the last few weeks has forced us to postpone the supplement. The following is a slightly-updated condensation of one of the pieces originally scheduled for the supplement, on Corporation member Hugh D. Calkins...
Doris H. Kearns, formerly a White House Fellow and a member of Johnson's White House staff, said yesterday that she has visited the LBJ ranch several times, most recently during Easter week. "My job has been to jog his memory and to suggest possible themes for his lectures and discussions," Miss Kearns said. "For example, one topic might be "The President and Congress,'" she said...