Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon, Whitehair has acted like a smalltime politician in an oversize job. During business hours, he regularly keeps admirals with high-priority business stacked waiting outside his plush-lined office, while he leisurely hashes over old times with political cronies. An expert fence mender, Whitehair recently had the Navy postpone a minor ship-recommissioning ceremony, at Green Cove Springs, Fla., until he could get down there last week to harangue the home folks...
Several outstanding competitor will be missing this winter: Jim Weaver, who captained last year's squad, Skiddy Lund, jumping and cross country expert, and Ed Ritvo, who led in downhill and slalom. Houser hopes, though, that new men, White Black, George Wilson, and John Glessner, may plug some of the game...
That ice outside may be more than not nice; according to the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory it is probably the harbinger of a long, colder-than-usual winter. Working from the calculations of a German seasonal forecasting expert, Professor Franz Baur, the meteorologists have concluded that this year's cold November may be an accurate barometer predicting lots more cold weather to come...
...company's biggest problem was a lack of supply. To help solve it, Peoples brought in Illinois-born Jim Dates, a Northwestern-trained lawyer who had bossed purchasing policy for the Ordnance Department for two years during the war, previously made a name as an expert in utility...
Russia and Communism were getting to be known quantities instead of bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then...