Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken by you to prevent Communists from having a voice in the Institute of Pacific Relations?" Lattimore answered: "I was not responsible for employment." Pressed further, the professor, long cited as an American authority on Soviet Asia, said he was really an innocent on ideologies: "I was not an expert on Communism . . ." Had any mistakes been made in U.S. China policy? Sidestepped Lattimore: "I make a distinction between mistakes and lack of success...
...chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he won acclaim last year for his fair and steady hand on the MacArthur hearings. An expert back-room organizer and a skillful floor leader, he is the best parliamentarian in the Senate. As leader of the Southern bloc, holding the balance of power, he is often called the most powerful man in the Senate...
Secondly, it is quite doubtful whether high tax rates on middle and higher income groups are really necessary. Senator George, an outstanding expert on taxation and federal expenditures, states that if all the taxable income over $8,000 were confiscated, the total netted would not run the government over twenty-two days. If the current trend of federal pecuniary bloodsucking is allowed to continue we shall witness the destruction of our middle-class and the advent of the greatest danger innate in democracy: the reduction to a deadening mediocrity of those with superior capabilities...
Most impressive believer is Dr. Walther Riedel, a scar-faced German rocket expert who was chief designer at the Peenemunde V-2 center and now works for North American Aviation, Inc. Riedel has seen nothing strange himself, but for years he has kept records of sightings all over the world. He is convinced that there are strange craft in the sky, and that they come from outer space...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne duMaurier. An expert mixture of suspense...