Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Membership in the Communist empire and expert guidance. Red China officers swarm, and Red China goods are turning up in Hanoi. Seven of eleven top Viet Minh leaders were trained in Moscow. Ho Chi Minh, according to the best evidence, reports direct to Moscow, not through Peking...
...French colonials make their own contribution to chaos. Some, hoping to maintain privileges in the rubber-rich South, are encouraging the Vietnamese generals to intrigue against Diem; other Frenchmen want to replace Diem with Buu Hoi, 39, a left-wing leprosy expert who has not lived in Indo-China for 20 years. In the Communist North, a 20-man French mission hopes to keep "the French presence" in the Viet Minh state, and do business there; there is even talk of French help to rebuild the vital strategic railroad from Hanoi to Langson on the Red China frontier...
Since Dean Griswold was appointed in 1946, basic changes have taken place in Harvard's approach to the law. There has been a complete revamping of the curriculum and the addition of many new and diverse seminars. The 50-year-old legal expert went to Oberlin College and received his LL.B. from Harvard Law in 1928 and his S.J.D...
...just-published book, Aspects of Chinese Painting (Macmillan; $7.50), Alan Priest, Far Eastern expert of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, explains: "The Chinese look upon natural things with an eye and feeling more intimate than is common to the West. The scholar seated under the ancient pine looking out upon the lofty hills is not alone; he is part of them, and they...
Died. Hermann Ehlers, 50, president of West Germany's Bundestag and top Protestant member of the Christian Democratic Union; of a heart attack, following an operation on abscessed tonsils; in Oldenburg. An expert parliamentarian, Lawyer Ehlers was elected to the Bundestag in 1949, brought religious harmony and gave wider voter appeal to the predominantly Roman Catholic C.D.U. through his deft leadership of the party's Protestant wing...