Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freight pays more than passengers these days, and freight handling is the railroads' biggest business - a subject on which Davidson is a home expert. His family playroom in Manhasset, L.I., is monopolized by a vast and ever-expanding model-train layout, on which he and his children vie for time at the controls. "We have all freight cars - no passenger cars," he says proudly. "It's a very modern railroad...
...Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...
Beyond the Teacher. Another scholarly convert to trots is Dante Expert Aldo Bernardo, humanities chairman of S.U.N.Y.'s Binghamton campus, who once considered it criminal to read The Divine Comedy in anything but the original. "If the kids have to be exposed to an interpretation of this stuff," he explains now, "it had just as well be mine." Actually, as Beebe sees it, some of the opposition has come from teachers' fear that the guides "may put into the hands of the students more information about a given work than the teacher knows himself." Since many...
...Hong Kong, however, a U.S. expert on Viet Nam warned that Hanoi is interested in talks as a means of achieving not peace but a different kind of war. By getting the U.S. to call off its bombers, he reasoned, the North Vietnamese would "lower the profile" of the conflict, reducing it from big-unit operations to the pinprick guerrilla maneuvers at which the Communists have been so effective. Reinforcing that line of thought was a document recently captured by U.S. forces calling on the Communists to "fight the war and negotiate at the same time." The directive continued...
Named to succeed Schultze was an other New Economist-Charles J. Zwick, 41, a former Harvard professor and Assistant Budget Director for two years. An expert in Government reorganization, Zwick aims to consolidate and strengthen the programs that Johnson has won from Congress...