Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first job at the age of eleven working on an ice truck in Atlantic City, later put in time on seven radio stations in four states and Canada. A World War II marine with three battle stars and a wooden leg, Pyne fancies himself a foreign-affairs expert. His Asia policy, for instance, is to bomb Red China. When California Democratic Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan expressed a less hawkish view, Pyne, who had phoned him for an opinion in the first place, sneered: "What qualifies you to comment on military strategy...
Back to the Machine. Los Angeles lawyers, to be sure, are still allowed to arrive at trial and ask for continuances, but judges now accept only substantial excuses, such as the unavoidable absence of expert medical witnesses. Continuances are granted in only 20% of civil suits, almost half the previous rate, and it may not pay to get one. Lawyers who are not ready must report back to the computer, and wait as long as three months for another trial. By contrast, the court stresses the constitutional right to speedy trial in criminal cases by guaranteeing that any defendant...
...bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival and medical care...
...Harvard Summer School Committee for Human Rights in Southern Africa will present a teach-in on "American Foreign Policy and Racism in Southern Africa," Thursday at 8 p.m. in Burr B. Speakers will include Allard Lowenstein, American expert on South West Africa...
Primitive Faith. The book was un earthed by an Oxford Islamic scholar, Dr. Samuel Stern, who just in passing told Hebrew University Philosopher Shlomo Pines about it. Pines, also an expert on early Christian history, concluded that the text accurately reflected the primitive faith of the Nazarenes, whose doctrines had previously been known through polemics against them by such orthodox theologians of the early church as Jerome and Epiphanius...