Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's personal emissary to Latin America in 1953 and again this summer, Milton Eisenhower has become an expert in hemispheric relations, urged U.S. programs to help Latin America help itself...
...scholastic accomplishments with prizes from his own slender wages at the Belle Spring Creamery. "I was tremendously impressed that Dwight wanted me to succeed," says Milton today. An Abilene schoolteacher, Annie Hopkins, was installed in the household to supervise the homework of both Milton and Earl, did such an expert job on Milton that his Latin teacher accused him of using a pony. He bookwormed his way through Abilene High School with 26 "ones"-the equivalent of A's-out of a possible 31, six years later (in 1924) graduated with honors from Kansas State College at Manhattan with...
...this nomination. I worked and fought from one end of the state to the other." He had done just that. Rockefeller's intensive campaign began last June. It started with a big name and a long record of public service as philanthropist and big businessman, as State Department expert on Latin American affairs, Under Secretary of the Health, Education and Welfare Department (1953-54), and military reorganization adviser to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
...Called the Tokyo TV Tower, it looks like Paris' famed Eiffel Tower, and when a 250-ft. antenna is added to it this fall, it will rise 1,082 ft. above Japan's capital and Tokyo Bay, beating the Eiffel Tower by 65 ft. Designed by Aerodynamics Expert Isamu Kamei to withstand 210-m.p.h. winds at its top and an earthquake twice as violent as the one that leveled Tokyo in 1923. the $7,000,000 tower will boast a glass-enclosed observation platform and restaurant at 400 ft. (about 30 stories high). Nestled between the tower...
...screenplay, adapted from Jacobowsky and the Colonel, his 1944 Broadway version of a play by Austria's Franz Werfel, Jacobowsky has "spent most of my life trying to become a citizen of some country ... In the technique of flight, you might say I'm an expert." He needs to be. When he bribes a Rothschild chauffeur into selling him "the last car in all Paris," he is able to prevent its being commandeered by the colonel only by hiding the gasoline until promised a ride. Once aboard, he finds they are heading not south toward safety but north...