Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidential Science Adviser James Killian set up a panel of scientists to determine whether a worldwide net of seismographic, acoustic and other equipment could detect a violation of any U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement to suspend tests. Named to head the panel: Cornell University's Dr. Hans Bethe, an acknowledged expert in the detection field...
...costly, uninhibited frolic. Havana's only rival in Latin America is Rio. Last week the two high-living cities got set for a comparison by an expert: Cuban Industrialist Burke Hedges, 46. In his own Lockheed Lodestar, Hedges circled Rio's Santos Dumont airport one sunny afternoon, set down, stepped out with his secretary, valet, fulltime flight crew. Reason for the move: Hedges is Cuba's new Ambassador to Brazil...
Ailing Studebaker-Packard announced last week that it was ready for a new try at the auto market with a new car, new financing and new blood. As expected, the new blood was supplied by Abraham M. Sonnabend, an expert at blending tax-loss carry-overs with profits (TIME, Aug. 18), who will now pick up moneymaking acquisitions to balance S.-P.'s $135 million tax carryover. The refinancing comes from 23 banks and insurance companies, which take over S.-P.'s $54.7 million debt in return for $16.5 million in 15-year-notes, and 165,000 shares...
Residenztheater," said Rococo Theater Expert Dr. Giinther Schone, director of Munich's Theater Museum. "I am afraid that the new gold leaf will shine too brightly and the walls will lack dust, the patina of age." But after two years of detailed restoration, the interior of Munich's rococo Residenztheater last week looked very much like the original-right down to the patina...
...home cost-of-living raises averaging 3? to 4? an hour-while industry's earnings are expected to decrease by about $2.5 billion. Businessmen who championed long contracts as a prerequisite of labor peace now wonder if the game is worth the candle. As one top Government labor expert says: "People are becoming disillusioned. Three to five years is a long time in a period of economic change...