Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will become Federal Aviation Agency administrator, replacing undynamic Najeeb Halaby, who has resigned and plans to write a book called Washington Cockpit. Virginia-born, West Pointer "Bozo" McKee is little known to the civilian aviation industry, but made a name for himself in the Air Force as a management expert; he is the only non-aviator ever to be made a four-star Air Force general. McKee was Air Force Vice Chief of Staff before he retired last August to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...degree at Yale, where he met Nicholas Katzenbach, now Attorney General. Turner was Katzenbach's personal choice to replace William Orrick, who is resigning. A consultant to both the Government and private industry in top antitrust cases, Turner has written widely on the subject, is considered an expert with a tough approach. In Antitrust Policy: An Economic and Legal Analysis, a book that Turner co-authored with Carl Kaysen, he suggested that a single company that controls more than half of its market, or any four companies that together command more than 80% of the market, are monopolistic...
...University Hall, Harvard is very much like a prehistoric monster, with a rather under-developed central nervous system and many large ganglia called "departments," which control the activity of its extremities. The largest of these is History, chaired by Donald H. Fleming, professor of History, a bald bouncy expert on the American intellect...
...heavyweight race, Harvard took advantage of a stiff tall wind as only an expert crew can. Parker explained last night that under such conditions, choppy waters and the very speed of the boat make it essential that a crew be able to get its cars in and out of the water swiftly and smoothly. A crew that cannot loses its momentum. But the Harvard crew rowed with precision, and finished in an incredible 8:15. The old record of 8:35.8 had stood since...
Clad in grey coveralls, with a .38 revolver on his hip and a knife strapped to his leg, McAllister was in the air so much of the time that he began counting "missions" by the day instead of by the flight. He was so expert at detecting guerrilla camouflage that he could spot a Viet Cong position within seconds. He flew in low-like a "goosed gnat," in the words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared...