Word: expert
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From Columbia University last year, a Roman Catholic nun working for her M.A. in Russian flew off to the Soviet Union to do interviews on the 1917 Revolution. At the University of California in Berkeley, one of the nation's best centers for Hispanic studies, another nun, expert in Spanish, has just been offered a job as a teaching fellow. In New York, sisters attending Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart avidly study the sometimes shocking works of Samuel Beckett, and other nuns press curiously into a Second Avenue loft to take in the blasphemous black mass of Jean...
Snead, who would rather catch a marlin than lick Ben Hogan, says that going after blacks is "like hunting elephants." Another expert big game fisherman, S. Kip Farrington Jr., calls the black "the glamour boy of all fishes-and the most difficult to catch." Farrington should know: he once held the world record (a 1,135-pounder), and he has also spent 94 consecutive fishing days without boating a single marlin...
...Plan, free rein to develop the planning machinery, which holds out rewards of tax credits and easy loans for companies that produce what the government suggests. Not long ago, the Common Market paid Massé the compliment of setting up a similar body to plan for the Six. An expert in the complex field of the mathematics of economics, Massé has sharpened his colleagues' ability to predict the consequences of some policies and to propose counteractions by changing interest rates and money supplies...
Back from Bucharest, Patrick Gordon Walker, the British Labor Party's for eign affairs expert, says: "In Eastern Europe at the moment, Khrushchev has about six De Gaulles on his hands...
...friends as "unbudgeable Judge Budge." As a Republican Congressman from Idaho for ten years until he was defeated in 1960, he consistently voted against Government spending and public welfare measures, stood with Southern Democrats on civil rights. Now a state judge in Idaho, he admits to being far from expert in finance. These may seem like unusual qualifications for the newest member of the five-man Securities and Exchange Commission, but last week Hamer Harold Budge got the job. President Johnson appointed him, said SEC sources, partly as a political favor to House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, the judge...