Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor Jewish parents' emigration from Warsaw, he grew up on the bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City of New York and plunged into Brooklyn ward politics, his entree to a 20-year city hall career. A canny, candid financial expert, Beame spoke with authority in condemning longtime Boss Bob Wagner's feckless financing practices, thus shrewdly disassociated himself from the tired Democratic regime of which he was a part...
Rank on Rank. With Goodwin and Busby out and Larry O'Brien switching to the Post Office Department, the top rank of aides is reduced-in order of importance-to Moyers, who also acts as a general adviser, Bundy, Johnson's expert in diplomacy and national security, and Valenti, a Man Friday who, among other responsibilities, supervises the presidential schedule and probably spends more time with Lyndon than any other aide in the new lineup...
Western military observers, who have been as frustrated as newsmen in getting to the front lines, are not at all convinced. Contrasting the claims of both sides, one expert said, "the figures just don't match-one or the other must be totally off." And, despite the joy in New Delhi at its army's great tank victory, the awkward fact was that Pakistan still held Kasur...
Four of a Kind. As the world's most mobile division, nothing like the First Team has ever existed in the history of warfare. Some 3,000 of its men are trained paratroopers, and the rest are expert in heli-assault landings. Its 428 helicopters have doubled the total number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed...
...apparent reason, killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel, S.J., a Brazilian bee expert, "but the exact opposite has happened...