Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assignment puts him in line for the top Air Force job when Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay retires in February. That prospect disposes of rumors that LeMay's successor will be General Bernard Schriever (TIME cover, April 1, 1957), boss of the Air Force Systems Command and pioneer expert in ballistic missiles development. One possibility for Schriever: command of SAC, now in the hands of General Thomas Power, who plans to retire in November...
...settlement in the rail dispute was brought about by the two expert mediators appointed by the President: George W. Taylor of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and Theodore Kheel, a Manhattan attorney who successfully mediated New York's newspaper and schoolteacher strikes last year. A few hours after they presented their final proposal (see box), Roy Davidson, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, rose and said: "On behalf of all the organizations, I wish to say that while there are parts of your proposal that are not to our liking...
...giant of the industry and its current pacemaker is Chicago's Continental Casualty Co., whose high-risk premiums have tripled to $21 million in five years. Continental got into the business in 1954 by hiring away a Lloyd's expert named Vincent S. McKerrow, who now heads Continental's special-risks department, which has branches in 16 cities. Under McKerrow, Continental has insured a railroad against any harm that might be caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused...
...eminent labor relations expert last night hailed President Johnson's "masterful handling" of the railroad situation and said there were "no smacks at all of a deal" in the President's promise to review the railroads' tax grievances...
...letter which appeared in the April 15 issue of the CRIMSON Lloyd I. Rudolph, assistant professor of Government, expresses amusement and dismay at the "self-congratulatory" statement of the Department of Linguistics that with the appointment of six new instructors "the only major area still without a Faculty expert will be African linguistics..." Professor Rudolph further expresses his doubts that in this day and age of developing nations whose languages remain largely unknown to the outside world, scholarship can best be served "by appointments in ancient languages only." I should like to make two brief comments on these statements...