Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Felix Frankfurter for his presentation of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert on civil rights legislation-and a thorn in the side of his own party regulars...
Clearly, for the first time in a major U.S. city, dissatisfied Negroes had turned away from both major parties to back a candidate from their own ranks who would tackle their own problems. Said one political expert: "This wasn't an election; it was an uprising...
Everywhere Meg went, in fact, a varied assortment of the nation's own version of noblemen and -women were eager to greet her. In San Francisco, Hello, Dollyl's Carol Channing showed up for an English-Speaking Union luncheon, and Bullfight Expert Barnaby Conrad graced an exclusive dinner given by Socialite Whitney Warren atop Telegraph Hill. Down at the Bistro in Beverly Hills, the banquet list of Hollywood aristocrats included Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye and a couple of Queen Elizabeth's loyal subjects named Burton. Margaret promptly upset her security guards in San Francisco...
...Fanny's original trial, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, testified in Suffolk Superior Court that the book is of literary and historic merit. Bullitt was one of a series of professors brought into court in May, 1964 by Putnam's expert censorship lawyers. Charles I. Rembar '35 and Reuben Goodman...
Tigers & Sheepishness. Psywar works on friend and foe alike. During a tough battle in the Mekong Delta recently, local girls were sent aloft at night to warn the V.C. that they were "facing a unit that never loses, the 7th Division." Recalls an American psywar expert: "It may not have worried the guerrillas, but it turned the South Vietnamese troops into tigers...