Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluded that the sap rises in trees because the spring wind causes a pumping action in the branches, a staffer, missing the chance for an argument-provoking essay in pseudo science, made the mistake of writing a Trib story setting out the scientific facts. The Colonel noted: "Our sap expert missed a trick...
...South Viet Nam. In addition to its millions and its prestige, Washington invested the talents of 1,000 Americans in the country, with the ex-Army chief of staff, General J. Lawton Collins, as the top U.S. emissary. Among them: for land reform, Wolf Ladejinsky, the celebrated Agriculture Department expert who did the land reform job in postwar Japan; for maneuvering against the Communists, Colonel Edward Lansdale, the officer who played such a helpful role in the rise of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay that Filipinos gave him a post-election title of "General Landslide...
...ostrich who tries to wish away unpleasant facts by burying his head in the sand, the U.S. stubbornly continues to recognize the Nationalists as the government of China. Unfortunately the revolution is over, and Mao Tse-Tung has implanted in China a ruthless but stable regime. Almost every Asian expert--from professors to State Department advisers to private observers--agrees that the Red Chinese government is going to be around for a long time to come...
...beneath the Democrats' fun, there was a sobering fact. The party's two finance experts, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Georgia's Walter George, thought that Lyndon Johnson's political dream was a fiscal nightmare. Johnson's plan affected several phases of tax policy, but its heart was a $20 cut for each taxpayer plus a $10 cut for each dependent (except the spouse), balanced against repeal of the Eisenhower Administration's tax credit on stock-dividend income. Johnson maintained that the proposal would add almost $5 billion to U.S. revenue. But Harry...
Bridges in the Rooms. While Byrd effectively operated as the floor manager against the tax cut (and Delaware's Republican Senator John Williams as the G.O.P.'s most persistent orator). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges ran the campaign in the cloakroom. Operator Bridges, an expert in dispensing political favors, collected some of his many I.O.U.s to keep Republicans in line. Some farm Senators, e.g., Idaho's Herman Welker, North Dakota's Milton Young and South Dakota's Francis Case, all up for re-election next year, seemed to be wavering toward...