Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native of New York who has collaborated with former U.S. Census Director Richard M. Scammon on a book called This U.S.A. To be published next month, it is a product of 18 months that Wattenberg spent analyzing findings of the exhaustive 1960 decennial census, with Scammon's expert guidance. The book's refreshing and detailed conclusion is that the current proliferation of "capital-lettered afflictions" is largely a mirage. Wattenberg writes: "There is a balanced, historical view available that can better tell us where we have been, where we stand, and hint at where we are going...
...time it chooses. But that would risk a confrontation with the Kremlin, and for the time being the U.S. would rather see the Russians focusing their hostility on Red China. "This extreme approach is in abeyance, in the absence of a major provocation by Castro," says a U.S. expert. Neither, despite occasional Cuban feelers, will the U.S. consider negotiating a live-and-let-live deal with Castro so long as he remains totally committed to the Soviet bloc and continues his subversion around Latin America. President Johnson's policy is isolation and containment, while doing everything possible to deny...
...example, your garden variety cleric usually isn't a CIA-trained expert on Russia. Nor has he been instrumental in organizing a movement which profoundly affected the fabric of American society (the freedom rides of the early '60's.) Nor does he yet harbor a secret desire to be a concert pianist...
Nowadays, the classic Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ tests are given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for each student. Much more common are group intelligence tests (experts prefer to call them "scholastic aptitude" tests) such as the Otis Mental Ability test, which comes in an all-picture version for Grades 1 to 4 and with multiple choice questions for Grades...
Bullitt is a well-known expert in underwater archaeology. During his leave of absence, he spent part of his time diving in Greece, and he has since participated in several expeditions for the University of Pennsyivania Museum, including one last summer...