Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrei Gromyko left early from Geneva and paused for a five-hour stay in London. He has accepted an invitation to make the return trip with the other Big Four foreign ministers...
...problems, the most pressing was finding a successor to McElroy as Defense Secretary-or persuading him to stay on. Last week McElroy had two talks with the President and a constant stream of Pentagon interviews about prospective recruits for Defense. Administration leaders grimly watched him hunt hardest for a successor rather than a new deputy. A deputy could be picked from among the seasoned hands, e.g., Assistant Defense Secretary (Comptroller) Wilfred McNeil, or the Air Force's able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects...
...nation of oldsters; it is also creating a labor shortage in East Germany. Since 1949 more than 2,000,000 people have fled East Germany-more than three times the natural population increase. Says Willy Brandt: "When East Germans ask me what to do ... I tell them to stay as long as they can manage." His reason: the fear that if the population drain continues, the Russians may begin to resettle East Germany with other people, bringing the Slav tide to the edge of Berlin...
Williams claims that his script is a study of Southern degeneracy and of the influence of foreign blood on a corrupt system. In point of fact, it is a telescoping of two earlier short plays--Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short--and, for Williams at least, is a second-rate work. The story concerns itself with Baby Doll, a delicious but nearly brainless child of twenty, who is legally though not in fact the wife of Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance...
...decision put a damper on speculation that Thomas S. Gates, Jr., whom President Eisenhower nominated Monday as deputy secretary, had been persuaded to stay in government service so he could step into McElroy's shoes...