Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ugly necessities of the 20th century have driven most observers in the rest of the world to measure these possibilities solely by what they promise in terms of war or peace. In these terms, a State Department expert concludes that the Soviet New Course "ultimately creates power that will add to their war potential . . . They would be knuckleheads to start a war now, but in the late '50s, who can tell?" This vast upheaval over one-sixth the earth's surface might also be measured by the small easements-a pair of shoes, a full plate of food...
...race, a fine series of crosses and doublecrosses, is laughable right down to the finish line. All the main parts are played with expert pace and restraint, but the real stars of the show remain the fossil vehicles, as wild a sight on a modern highway as a pterodactyl in a bird bath...
Here he found the answer to complaints about the impracticability of dried, wax, papiermache, and alcohol-preserved flowers. Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, father and son, were expert practitioners of their Bohemian ancestors' glass artistry. Goodale went to Germany and persuaded them to take some time away from their lucrative marine work and devote it to the field of botany, which they had invaded before...
...director on the International Monetary Fund, at a tax-free $17,500 a year. The current controversy centers around White's appointment by President Truman to that post. He held the job for eleven months, and then, one April morning, he announced to his startled boss, Belgian Financial Expert Camille Gutt: "I'll be out of here in an hour. I'm leaving...
...reader to the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, "they either go to the police, the American embassy or Art Buchwald. I prefer the last." So do some 70 other travelers a week who write to chubby (196 lbs.) young (28) Columnist Art Buchwald seeking his expert advice on everything from what to do when the concierge turns off the heat in a Paris hotel (answer: "Go to another hotel...