Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have almost come to the conclusion that I could vote for cloture." It never came close to cloture; indeed, the vote was never in doubt, for the dissidents formed a minuscule if vocal minority. Despite his stereotyped press label as Capitol Hill's "most influential foreign policy expert," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Fulbright had little influence on the outcome...
...Expert Accident. In wartime 1942, Adams decided that his revolutionary battery had all sorts of potential military uses. When he offered it to the Army, though, every available expert rejected his idea as unvoltaic and unworkable. Indeed, no one yet knows exactly why the Adams battery works. But without ever telling the inventor, the Government secretly confirmed his claims and ordered at least 1,000,000 similar batteries. One version is used in meteorological balloons operating at temperatures that would freeze conventional batteries. Another version, activated by salt water, powers signal lights in the survival gear of military aviators...
...with the aid of an anonymous benefactor whom he credits with putting up $200,000 to fight the case, he went into the U.S. Court of Claims in 1960 and charged patent infringement. Fighting back, the Government cited older patents that used all of Adams' basic ingredients; an expert tried to build a battery according to the key (1880) patent, however, and the thing exploded. In the end, the court found that Adams was the first to create a workable, nonobvious battery out of the familiar ingredients. The Court of Claims ruled that the Government had clearly infringed Adams...
...concluded that their faculties are incomplete without the presence of at least one Roman Catholic. Yale, which welcomed Jesuit John Courtney Murray as a visiting professor of philosophy in 1951-52, last semester had a Roman Catholic teaching at its divinity school: Carmelite Father Roland Murphy, an Old Testament expert from Catholic University. Harvard's divinity school has had a chair of Catholic studies since 1958; currently, the professorship is held by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie* is on the staff of the University of Chicago divinity school. Last summer the divinity school of Vanderbilt...
Hurrying to Buy. Inflation is an international malaise (see WORLD BUSINESS) and symptoms of it are appearing all over the U.S. Last month wholesale prices climbed at an alarming annual rate of 6%. The Government's chief price expert, Commissioner Arthur Ross of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, expects prices to rise more markedly in 1966 than in 1965, when the wholesale index went up 3.4% and the consumer index 2.2%. The biggest increases will be in bills for medical care, recreation and repair services; the price of houses will rise more sharply than in recent years...