Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continued Bevan: "I am the world's worst swimmer [but] Tito is expert. When we went bathing together, Tito, my wife and Tiger, the magnificent German police dog that goes everywhere with him, the three of them enjoyed my discomfiture . . . The Marshal promised if I stayed a little longer he would soon teach me to be as good a swimmer as he is himself...
...boxing authorities have a set routine for soothing public anger whenever a fighter dies from a ring beating. The ritual calls for regrets, investigations, hearings, expert testimony and hopeful promises. Last week the New York State Athletic Commission had to begin the rites of atonement for the first time in 1951; Welterweight George Flores, 20, knocked out in Madison Square Garden,* died of a brain injury. Said the commission...
...high can taxes go? One tax expert is sure they can't go much higher Without killing off the taxpayer. In the current Saturday Evening Post, Roswell Magill, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury and now president of the nonprofit Tax Foundation, describes in painfully homely terms the tax burden already carried by "Henry Suburban," an average income earner who commutes to work. Henry knows all about his heavy income tax and social security. But his life is also plagued by hidden taxes he rarely thinks about...
Foreign Uniform. For his coup de grace, McCarthy pulled out of his bag a life-size photograph of a man in a foreign military uniform. This he identified as one Gustavo Duran, who once held a "top job" in the State Department (aide to Latin American Expert Spruille Braden, 1943-46), and now works for the United Nations Secretariat. The blur of McCarthy rhetoric implied that Duran had been a member of the Russian secret police in Europe, and his photograph was right there to prove it. (What Joe actually said was: Duran was head of something called "S.I.M...
...increase their sales appeal. "I might feel that a brilliant red would give the appropriate feeling," Hasui sighs, "but if he prefers a dull orange, a dull orange it is." An engraver makes as many as 20 color blocks (separations) of Hasui's finished picture, and an expert printer runs it off in editions of 200. This is precisely the procedure which his great forerunners followed...