Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cement manufacturers, looking forward to the golden days of the $50 billion federal highway program, are getting set to hike cement prices; a strike, settled in due season-with added costs-would provide just the occasion. "When the negotiations make very little headway all over," added a Government labor expert in Washington, "such a concentrated front suggests some timetable is working. Such a remarkable uniformity of attitude is more than a coincidence...
...deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds of Ukrainian party members. It was while on one of these assignments that he struck up an acquaintanceship with Colonel Ivan Serov, NKVD expert in genocide...
Stanford University's Thomas S. Barclay, 65, who for some 35 years gave life and color to his political science courses through his experiences as a practicing politician (delegate to three Democratic conventions, assistant to onetime Democratic Postmaster General Jim Farley). An expert on Western politics, Barclay gave hours each week to advising students on "practically everything but marriage." When he paid tribute recently to one of his own mentors, he might well have been describing himself. "One of the most humanistic men I have ever met," said he of Historian Charles A. Beard, "a man who would spend...
This time Bachelor Boston, 35, onetime Boston University football star and Navy demolitions expert, whistled up a wind that nestled firmly in the shoulder of his sail. The sea was a glassy, green highway. Twelve pleasant days later, Boston was stretching his legs in Bermuda...
Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain...