Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...33rd year in the Senate. As the Senate's dean, George holds the respect that the politicians give a man who has been consistently successful in the business of winning elections. As the longtime chairman of the Finance Committee, he is the Senate's acknowledged tax expert. As the current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he is the Senate's Democratic spokesman on foreign policy. And as a Southern moderate, he is on the friendliest terms with the Northern liberals, e.g., he wangled a place on the U.S. delegation to the SEATO conference for his protege...
...known that his thoughts were-and had been for some time-much the same as George's. ¶ The climactic battle of the 84th Congress will come on the Administration's liberalized foreign-trade bill. Walter George, in his dual role of Democratic fiscal and foreign-affairs expert, will play the key part. A longtime reciprocal trader, still holding firm against protectionist pressures from Georgia's textile and plywood industries, he may make the difference between an adequate bill and one riddled with amendments granting tariff sops to individual industries. ¶ When House Speaker Sam Rayburn pushed...
...Back! It was one of my wiser decisions. The truly atrocious spots which earlier had marked the production have been shuffled off the stage: the opening half-hour is now a pleasing burst of song, not a dirge; and the cumbersome sketches have been pared to size. Through their expert cutting and repasting, Gross-Charnas-Weller have produced a musical of well-paced comedy and song. Great to Be Back! has become possible to enjoy and possible to recommend...
...which he is currently writing two books. A Midwesterner (from Fond du Lac, Wis.), Brauer studied at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis, took his Ph.D. in church history at F.T.F.. then spent two years at Union Theological teaching and serving as assistant to Theologian Paul Tillich. Puritan Expert Brauer sees a new kind of theological liberalism emerging at F.T.F. "It still asserts the creativeness and potentiality of the human spirit." he says, "but it is also much more aware of the limitations of the human spirit-for example, it takes sin seriously. It is not as optimistic...
...they gloom up over the accidents of fate. A skilled storyteller, Shute makes his combat scenes exciting and his love-in-bloom scenes tender, peppers both with Hitchcocky suspense. In his 18th novel, Nevil Shute, onetime Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, proves again that he is one of the most expert countermen working literature's snack...