Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal court order that Lowndes County, which is 84% Negro, include a reasonable number of Negroes on its venire lists. But the Negroes were carefully screened, and turned out to be, in Flowers' bitter words, "nothing more than Uncle Toms." Despite impressive circumstantial evidence -an FBI ballistics expert testified that the bullet removed from the woman's brain was fired from a revolver owned by Thomas-the verdict was "not guilty." When Judge Thagard asked the Negroes individually whether they had concurred, each looked at the floor and muttered...
...young, today, the teachings of Freud and his heirs are old-fashioned parts of the intellectual scenery. And most pop-psych strikes them as ludicrous. Even as interpreted by the expert, Freud's vision was never one of scientific "fact," but a fascinating mythology. The mythology can work successfully as part of treatment. But in the hands of amateurs, only a grotesquely distorted version remains, with its talk about stamp collecting as anal and piano playing as masturbatory. "That belongs to an earlier period," says Critic Alfred Kazin. "By now, people know that the passions are real...
...going to limit Dr. Baumgartner, she's the expert," DeGuglielmo said. "She's got no limitations in time or range...
...hand to get first copies of Komer's report was Donald MacDonald, 44, who replaces Charles Mann as AID chief in Viet Nam. MacDonald has headed AID programs in Pakistan and Nigeria, and is known as an expert troubleshooter. The report's main points: > Galloping inflation, which could yet undo all the benefits of the U.S. buildup by swamping Viet Nam's economy with more money than it can absorb, has been curbed by a drastic 50% devaluation of the piaster, as well as by new economic restraints worked out jointly by U.S. and Vietnamese officials. - Saigon...
...year, was Thomas C. Mann, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. With headquarters in Washington, Mann will work closely with Haddon, serve as the industry's spokesman while the new safety rules are being formulated. The State Department's longtime top expert on Latin America (TIME cover, Jan. 31, 1964), Mann retired last June, has since spent most of his time writing a book about the U.S.'s Latin American policy. He has never before had any association with the auto industry. But the industry has high hopes for him as a skilled diplomat...