PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Oct. 18, 1954

¶ General Walter Bedell Smith, 59, Under Secretary of State and stand-in for Secretary John Foster Dulles at the recent Geneva Conference (TIME. July 26 et seq.), became vice-chairman of the board of the American Machine & Foundry Co. in what Chairman-President Morehead Patterson called "a key policymaking role in the company."

¶ Leston P. Faneuf, 49, became company-wide general manager of Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp. Lawrence D. (for Dale) Bell, 60, who remains as president, thought that the company was getting too big for one boss, will devote himself to policy matters while Faneuf handles operations. Before he joined...

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