Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representative Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.) called the report a study of "how far and how fast government should go in its support of fundamental research." He also hailed the 15 essays as a "new dimension in Congressional relations with the scientific community" because it provides expert guidance to the legislative branch in determining the most efficient support of scientific research...
SPECIALIST 5TH CLASS LARRY C. NIEDRINGHAUS, 22, serves as the demolitions expert for a twelve-man U.S. Special Forces team at Suoida, a bleak, wire-enclosed camp at the base of Black Virgin Mountain, 60 miles northwest of Saigon. Niedringhaus first came to Viet Nam in 1962, at his own request is now serving his third tour of duty. Says he: "Damned if I can think of any place I'd rather be or anything I'd rather...
...despite the fact that it is often blamed when it should not be, and almost never praised when it should be, there is little doubt that the CIA needs an expert administrative hand at its helm. "If the admiral doesn't apply his PERT to this outfit," one CIA official said last week, "we'll be drowned in data." The agency receives an average of 2,000 top-secret messages every 24 hours from all over the globe. It has a card-file index of more than 50 million documents. Such sophisticated devices as long-range cameras, sensitive...
...directs a secret Treasury study of ways to reform the monetary system, has become the nation's chief tactician in the day-to-day gold maneuverings and the most widely traveled member of the top team, jetting once a month to monetary meetings in Europe. A domestic money expert who headed Minneapolis' Federal Reserve Bank, Deming hardly knew Europe's clubby central bankers when he moved into his job last January. Deming was hand-picked for the job by his predecessor, Robert Roosa, who gave him two pieces of advice: For the first year, make no public...
There was a sly gutsiness about this whole production that gave me the feeling my responses were being tampered with. The actors kept ducking out from under the characterizations I tried to pin on them, and shrugging off my sympathy. I'm no expert on Brecht, but I understand that's what's supposed to happen. If it isn't, director Timothy Mayer has certainly produced something intriguing...