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Included in his scope of "corections" is a plan to send one of the department's lieutenants to a three-week intensive command supervisory training course at the Command Training Institute at Babson College. This opportunity, Chafin says, was never before open to the University police; he says he plans to send all newly appointed supervisory personnel to the Institute in the future...
Verba still feels, however, that leaves are generally beneficial for busy professors. "It's a good way of renewing one's intellectual competences," he said, adding he believes "that any major department, like the Strategic Air Command, should keep one-third of its faculty in the air at any given time...
...daylight the combines of Jessie Small's command look like green and yellow robots roaming through the wheat. When they start rolling down the length of a 60-acre section, it seems as if they will just keep right on going. Never stopping. Never turning aside. A 24-ft.-wide reel spins languidly in front of each combine, like a big lawnmower in slow motion, nudging the pale stalks of wheat gently into the path of unseen cutting blades...
...they entered the three-story, salmon-colored palace, the Sandinistas started shooting. Six guards and two civilians were killed, and 15 other people, including one commando, were wounded. Within moments, the guerrilla raiders were in command of the National Palace. Inside were more than 1,500 people?probably the largest number of hostages ever held captive in a terrorist operation...
...gold we trust," is Deak's philosophy, and he has made many fortunes by dealing in gilt and anxiety. Clients crowd his Hong Kong branch offices to buy newly minted "Deak Dollars," small gold coins that command premium prices because they are stamped with Deak's aquiline features. Other customers stand in line at his 42nd Street outlet in Manhattan to buy gold coins and Swiss franc traveler's checks, which they stash away as investments. At this rate, Nick Deak will be giving Karl Maiden some competition. Still other investors-widows, orphans and the simply frightened...