Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BROWSING through an antique shop off London's Bond Street a few years ago, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum Director James J. Rorimer came across a metal bust that caught his expert eye. Recalls Rorimer: "It was filthy with grime, tarnished, painted with a darkened varnish, and the face was covered with several layers of flaking paint." When he opened the bust's hinged miter. he saw that the inside was of carefully hammered silver. Concluded Rorimer: "There could be no doubt that here was an Italian 15th century reliquary bust...
...Wound. The House committee (most of whom had not read his two volumes) listened while Staff Director Richard Arens led the 41-year-old Cogley through a three-hour examination that touched on some glaring weaknesses. In one key section Cogley quotes an anonymous "New York public-relations expert who has guided more than a dozen once-blacklisted performers to the 'right people' " to get their names cleared. Cogley's strong implication: the "clearance men" are vicious operators, "with the power to wound and the power to heal the wound." Next day Counsel Arens called...
...important cotton crops for 20 years. Nasser asked advice of his friend, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, an old hand at playing roulette with Russia. Tito warned him to beware of the Russian habit of turning trade on and off for political purposes. The Yugoslavs, said Expert Tito, have developed a rule of thumb: not more than 25% of a nation's foreign trade can safely be given to Russia...
...Stuffy" Walters, an oldtime reporter himself, passed the tip along to the Daily News's top expose expert, Capital Correspondent George Thiem (pronounced theme), told him to start digging. As Thiem, 59, began to turn up pay dirt, most other Chicago papers ignored his story. But by last week Thiem's digging had unearthed the biggest state scandal in years, spread it across Page One in Illinois papers from Waukegan to Cairo. Fearful that the scandal could rock Republican chances at the polls in November, Governor William Stratton last week ordered Auditor Hodge to 1) withdraw...
...week-old steel strike has brought the question from some laymen: Why not arbitrate? Instead of settling the dispute by force, let industry and union turn the dispute over to an expert, impartial arbitrator who would make a binding decision on the basis of facts...