Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understandably, Weaver has picked academic experts and Government careerists for several top jobs. His Under Secretary is Robert C. Wood, a brilliant Massachusetts Institute of Technology expert on metropolitan government, who helped draft major task-force reports on cities for the President. Assistant Secretary for Metropolitan Development is Charles M. Haar, 45, a Harvard law professor who headed the President's task force on natural beauty...
...international intrigue. They suggest that President Johnson may have stirred him up by sending Averell Harriman to Cairo with a virtual invitation to join the Viet Nam peace effort. "Lyndon's gone and dragged Nasser away from the fireplace and onto the balcony again," sighs one American expert. "Once you get him out there, it's a helluva job to get him back to the fireplace again...
...past few weeks, Eisenstadt has pledged compliance with the state's sweeping racial imbalance law, proposed a comprehensive new guidance system, hired a public relations expert to boost the school system's image, and secured adoption of Madison Park as the site for a new campus-type high school. None of these moves would have been possible during the turbulent rule of Chairman Hicks, whose obsession with the shibboleth of the neighborhood school blinded her to almost all channels of progress...
...prefaced his remarks with an anecdote about what it takes to be an authority on such a subject, relating that--at one point--the U.N. feared it was being too lax about the qualifications of its African experts. As a result, a directive was issued which established that "you can't be an expert on an African country any longer if you've only flown over it by night...
...quantity of sensitive and valuable art. Furthermore, jackets can represent important trends in graphic arts and book design. But in the end, the greatest value in their preservation, as Kleist points out, may be their interest to future generations as relics of a dead culture. As the late printing expert Holbrook Jackson said, "ephemera may prove to be reliable a guide to historians as the congeries of books in the Bodleian or the British Museum. The historian of the future may yet learn more of our period from book-jackets and blurbs than from the novels whose flamboyancies (they...