Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imagine where this country could be if someone had used this slogan 20 years ago instead of: "Let's see how much we can waste." They were politicians. I hope Charlie Wilson will always be a "hell of a lousy politician" [TIME, June i]. We have so many expert politicians now sitting on their fat rumps, afraid to stand up and legislate for the taxpayer, they can't understand the logic of a man like Wilson when he wants to save or suggest ways of saving our resources by running his department as he would run a successful...
...left and the right wings. To get them together in the Senate, he was careful to see that each side got a fair break on committee assignments. To keep them together, he uses such devices as getting Georgia's conservative Richard Russell, the party's recognized farm expert, to go over a farm bill to be introduced by Minnesota's left-wing Hubert Humphrey...
...York, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan gave a five-year prison sentence to lanky William Perl (TIME, June 1), 34-year-old jet-propulsion expert and onetime classmate (Manhattan's City College) of Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. It was "abundantly established," said Judge Ryan, that Perl had deliberately lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not know Rosenberg or Sobell...
...Keep It Gay. There is an agreeable cast, gaily paced by George Abbott, gaily dressed by Irene Sharaff. There are some good Bob Alton dances, and Joan McCracken not only steps up the dancing but notably brightens the show. And Jo Mielziners "problem" sets are fascinatingly expert...
Daimler-Benz's postwar comeback was slow. For months, the surviving work force of 13,000 did little but rebuild U.S. staff cars to get money to reconstruct the smashed plant. Under Fritz Koenecke, 54, a wartime synthetic-rubber expert, Daimler-Benz production has risen to almost 25% more than its 1938 peacetime peak; its work force is now 35,000. In 1951, Daimler-Benz led all West German auto makers in value of production (800 million Deutsche mark, or $190 million), this year expects to produce 1 billion ($238 million) worth of autos and trucks. Already better than...