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...Force. Last year, when Vandenberg was out of action for months recuperating from surgery, Nate Twining ran the Air Force in all but name, distinguished himself for evenhandedness and loyalty to Vandenberg's policies. Twining is near retirement age. President Eisenhower was thus able to appoint him for two years instead of the usual four, and still reserve the chance to appoint youngish (46) General Lauris Norstad, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, to the top Air Force rung before the next presidential term...
This does not mean that General Education and the Bender Plan emerged Minerva-like from the Decanal forehead, unaided by members of the committees involved and the Faculty. Rather, it was a matter of the Provost's ability to bring up ideas, to appoint good men to committees and to secure the best from them and to allow fully play for the wisdom of the Faculty as a whole without relinquishing the essence of either program. This combination of initiative, tolerance, and determination has steadily characterized his thirteen years in office...
Ever since the votes were counted last November, top congressional Republicans have been arguing that Dwight Eisenhower should appoint a new team to replace the present U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The G.O.P. leaders' reasoning: the present chiefs have been so closely and politically tied to the Truman Administration's diplomatic and military policies (e.g., the abandonment of Nationalist China) that they cannot do the fresh thinking needed for a new Eisenhower program. Last week President Eisenhower privately assured his congressional leaders that he will name new chiefs, and will do so in time to give the nominees...
...governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951. Now that Ghulam Mohammad had the title, however, he was Queen Elizabeth's official representative in the British Dominion of Pakistan and in the theory of British government has the monarch's delegated power to dismiss or appoint ministers and governments (in England, no monarch since the days of George III had dared invoke that power without the sanction of Parliament). Pakistan, however, is a special case: only 5½ years a nation, it functions under the 1935 Government of India Act and has not yet adopted a constitution...
...attracted by the purely administrative side of affairs." But after a word with Cheka Boss Dzerzhinsky about the affairs of Rabkrin and Orgburo, Lenin added a postscript: "Stalin . . . becomes unbearable in the office of General Secretary ... I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin . . . and appoint another man . . . more patient, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades, less capricious, etc." Two months later Lenin had a third stroke which left him paralyzed, without the power of speech...